Childcare / Day Nurseries succession in West Midlands

208 of 755 childcare / day nurseries companies in West Midlands (27.5%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured755
Director aged 60+208
Exposure rate27.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology
755
Companies measured
208
Director 60+
61
Director 70+
27.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; childcare / day nurseries nationally runs at 28%.

MeasureCompanies
Childcare / Day Nurseries companies in West Midlands measured755
Oldest director aged 60 or over208
Oldest director aged 70 or over61

Of the 208 with a director over 60, 52 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Childcare / Day Nurseries in other regions

Region60+Rate
Scotland14240.5%
South West16534.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber19432.8%
East Midlands17431.4%
East of England23731%
North West33430%
South East31428.5%
Wales7728.1%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services5,52638.3%
Lettings5,32233.2%
Retail3,86420.9%
Investment3,17927.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,93638.1%
Other Leisure2,55530.4%
Property Development2,17743.3%
Engineering Services2,00036.8%

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 West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-childcare/west-midlands/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.