UK Business Succession Index

Childcare / Day Nurseries succession in West Midlands

186 of 702 childcare / day nurseries companies in West Midlands — 26.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured702
Director aged 60+186
Exposure rate26.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
702
Companies measured
186
Director 60+
56
Director 70+
26.5%
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 West Midlands measured702
Oldest director aged 60 or over186
Oldest director aged 70 or over56

Of the 186 with a director over 60, 50 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%
East Midlands14530.5%
North West33130.2%
South East28130%
Wales7728.1%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services5,02638.2%
Lettings4,85433.7%
Retail3,54420.8%
Investment2,98527.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,54237%
Other Leisure2,40330.2%
Property Development1,99643.3%
Engineering Services1,85937.3%

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, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-childcare/west-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.