All of the group’s 44 nurseries are graded Outstanding or Good.
The London Early Years Foundation is in second place, and ranking third is Duke’s Education’s Little Dukes.
Our analysis of the Ofsted reports of the biggest groups includes all those from our league table, our roundup of the UK's 25 largest nursery groups by size.
These groups offer a combined total of 162,129 places, 8,050 more nursery places than last year. They operate 2,010 settings, up from 1,926 in 2024.
This may well be the last time we publish this quality table in its current form, with Ofsted consulting on plans to move away from an overall one-word judgement towards a more ‘nuanced’ approach, including a five-point scale to grade areas of a setting’s work, and new report cards to set out the grades a provider achieves in each area, alongside a short description.
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