Regular readers will be familiar with our annual round-up of the top 20 nursery groups in the UK and Ireland, but this year for the first time Nursery Chains has compared the quality of nurseries in the largest chains by analysing Ofsted reports for each group in our league table.
Ofsted inspections are undoubtedly not the only marker of quality, but they do provide a snapshot of how nurseries owned and managed by the major chains rate in the quality of the childcare and early education they provide.
For the purposes of our survey, in order to make direct comparisons between the groups, we have only included nurseries that come under Ofsted's remit, that is early years settings in England.
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