UK Business Succession Index

Childcare / Day Nurseries succession in East Midlands

145 of 475 childcare / day nurseries companies in East Midlands — 30.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured475
Director aged 60+145
Exposure rate30.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
475
Companies measured
145
Director 60+
55
Director 70+
30.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; childcare / day nurseries nationally runs at 28.1%.

MeasureCompanies
Childcare / Day Nurseries companies in East Midlands measured475
Oldest director aged 60 or over145
Oldest director aged 70 or over55

Of the 145 with a director over 60, 42 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Childcare / Day Nurseries in other regions

Region60+Rate
Scotland13340.2%
South West17536.2%
East of England20134.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber20134%
North West33130.2%
South East28130%
Wales7728.1%
West Midlands18626.5%

Other trades in East Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services3,84038.8%
Lettings3,83035.6%
Retail2,46823.9%
Investment1,86726.8%
Other Leisure1,74730.3%
Investment / Fund Management1,73736.2%
Engineering Services1,39236.8%
Property Development1,34440.5%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Healthcare pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Childcare / Day Nurseries succession in East Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-childcare/east-midlands/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.