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What's happening with the largest nursery groups in the UK? Catherine Gaunt counts down the top 20 and reports on the latest changes among the market leaders The league table in our winter 2005 issue shows very little change in the numbers of registered places or settings for most of the 20 largest groups.

The league table in our winter 2005 issue shows very little change in the numbers of registered places or settings for most of the 20 largest groups.

Some very familiar names are there and the majority of them have not changed position at all, or if they have, only by a place or two.

Nord Anglia is still the clear market leader in terms of the number of childcare places it offers with 9,762 places and 101 nurseries, but it has not opened any new settings in the last six months and has only increased its places by 26.

In fact, there has also been a slow down in expansion for the all the big nursery chains, perhaps reflecting the uncertainty of the private sector at this time, with low occupancy levels reported still to be a problem for both large and small providers.

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