Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in South East

Name: Early Years / Pre-Primary business succession in South East
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235 of 676 early years / pre-primary companies in South East — 34.8% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured676

Director aged 60+235

Exposure rate34.8%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

676

Companies measured

235

Director 60+

Director 70+

34.8%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; early years / pre-primary nationally runs at 32.8%.

Measure	Companies
Early Years / Pre-Primary companies in South East measured	676
Oldest director aged 60 or over	235
Oldest director aged 70 or over	76

Of the 235 with a director over 60, 48 score 50 or higher on business quality — 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
Scotland	126	45%
East Midlands	108	37.8%
South West	131	36.8%
East of England	140	32.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber	101	31.8%
North West	201	31.6%
West Midlands	130	31%
London	379	28.8%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	14,455	41.6%
Lettings	9,873	42.9%
Retail	6,015	26.7%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,392	25.7%
Investment	5,385	33.7%
Other Leisure	5,364	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	4,380	40.3%
Property Development	4,170	46.3%

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

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ExitRadar, "Early Years / Pre-Primary succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/svc-education-early-years/south-east/

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.