Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in Scotland

Name: Early Years / Pre-Primary business succession in Scotland
Creator: ExitRadar
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123 of 280 early years / pre-primary companies in Scotland (43.9%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured280

Director aged 60+123

Exposure rate43.9%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

280

Companies measured

123

Director 60+

Director 70+

43.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; early years / pre-primary nationally runs at 32.3%.

Measure	Companies
Early Years / Pre-Primary companies in Scotland measured	280
Oldest director aged 60 or over	123
Oldest director aged 70 or over	43

Of the 123 with a director over 60, 22 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.

Early Years / Pre-Primary in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East Midlands	141	39%
South West	135	37.8%
East of England	180	33.6%
South East	254	33.6%
North West	191	30.2%
West Midlands	132	29.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	94	29.4%
London	331	27.8%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	4,028	37%
Consultancy Services	3,979	40.5%
Retail	2,697	25.3%
Agriculture	2,268	50.9%
Other Leisure	2,235	32.6%
Engineering Services	2,119	33.4%
Investment	2,115	33.3%
Investment / Fund Management	1,634	40.5%

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 Education & Training pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

See UK Education & Training →

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ExitRadar, "Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education-early-years/scotland/

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.