Group owner and former Asquith chief executive Russell Ford purchased the two settings from Scotts Wood Private Day Nurseries last month.
The sale will take All About Children up to 11 nurseries and increase the number of childcare places offered by 111 to around 1,060.
While the chain does plan to increase capacity at one of the sites, creating between eight and ten new places involving some renovation, Mr Ford said there are not many changes required.
‘They’re both very well established nurseries,’ he said. ‘They’re both well run and they’ve got very, very good staff teams, who are a really great bunch. It’s quite unlike some of our previous acquisitions, which have been more what I would call “turnaround” nurseries. Here there’s not a lot we have to do.’
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