Company‑run nurseries that opened, left the register or changed size.

NurseryWatch compares each Ofsted childcare register release with the one before and gives your sales team one CSV of the changes at settings run by companies and charities in England, with the owner matched to Companies House.

Latest change file nurserywatch-changes-latest.csv

2,675 rows, one per change at a setting run by a company or charity, out of 9,076 changes between the Ofsted files as at 31 Dec 2025 and 30 Jun 2026

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File format README.txt summary.json

3,571New settings1,024 with a company or charity owner

3,193Left the registerpresumed closed; reason not in the data

1,997Places changesregistered capacity up or down

287Renamed194 settings, 93 registered owners

95%Owners matchedof company owner names, to Companies House

In this release

10 of 2,675 rows

Change	Setting	Registered owner	Local authority	What changed
New	Blossom Bay NurseryURN 2886739	Blossom Bay Nursery Ltd	Barking and Dagenham · RM8	in 30 Jun 2026 file
New	Premier Education & St Thomas CE AcademyURN 2881340 · one of 6 new settings under this owner	Fit4Schools (Midlands) Ltd	Birmingham · B15	in 30 Jun 2026 file
New	East Harptree NurseryURN 2889265	East Harptree Nursery CIO	Bath and North East Somerset · BS40	in 30 Jun 2026 file
Places	Fruity Club: Holy GhostURN 2781951	Fruity Club Ltd	Wandsworth · SW12	16→250 +234
Places	Hamd House Nursery - Bordesley GreenURN EY462648	Hamd House School Ltd	Birmingham · B9	~~160~~→420 +260
Places	Achievers Day Nursery LtdURN EY458877	Achievers Day Nursery Ltd	Plymouth · PL3	0→140 +140
Left	Mytham Road Out Of School ClubURN 2529366	Kids Planet Day Nurseries Limited	Bolton · BL3	~~in 31 Dec 2025 file~~
Left	Bright Horizons New Southgate Day Nursery and PreschoolURN EY253975	Bright Horizons Family Solutions Limited	Barnet · N11	~~in 31 Dec 2025 file~~
Left	Your Co-Op Little Pioneers Nursery and Pre-School, RathvillyURN EY539601	The Midcounties Co-Operative Limited	Birmingham · B31	~~in 31 Dec 2025 file~~
New	Your Co-Op Little Pioneers Nursery and Pre-School RathvillyURN 2886404Same postcode district as the row above. In this release 26 settings left the register under The Midcounties Co-Operative Limited and 27 appeared under Places For Children (PFP) Limited, 25 of them at the same postcode. The Ofsted file does not say why.	Places For Children (PFP) Limited	Birmingham · B31	in 30 Jun 2026 file

The file lists the 2,675 changes at company- and charity-run settings; the other 6,401 changes on the register are counted in summary.json. Postcodes above are shown as the district only. Column by column.

What changed on the register

change_type · all 9,076 changes in this release

New setting Appears in the newer Ofsted file and not the older one.3,571
Left the register In the older file and absent from the newer one. Presumed closed; the file gives no reason, so it may also be a suspension, a re-registration or a change of type.3,193
Places change Registered places went up or down. The row carries the old value, the new value and the difference.1,997
Setting renamed The provider name changed by more than spelling, case or punctuation.194
Registered owner renamed The registered owner's name changed on the same Ofsted registration. A rebrand or a share purchase that kept the company number, not a transfer of the setting.93

Counts cover the whole register. The file lists the 2,675 of these changes that are at company- and charity-run settings; 28 spelling corrections to owner or setting names are counted in summary.json and never listed as changes.

Owners

Companies House · masking

1,459 of 1,536

Owner names matched to Companies House

95% of the distinct company and charity owner names in the file match a live Companies House record. Each matched row carries three extra columns.

company_number
matched_name
ch_confidence verified, or name match, unverified

What a row gives you

URN, change type, setting name, old and new value, local authority, postcode, places difference, provider type, and the owner as registered with Ofsted plus its Companies House match where one exists. File format.

Companies and charities only

Settings run by childminders and other individuals, and companies whose name may identify a person, are counted in summary.json (5,593 and 788 changes in this release) and never named as rows.

Releases

Ofsted publishes twice a year

As at 31 Dec 2025Ofsted file 59,629 providers
As at 30 Jun 2026Ofsted file 60,007 providers
This change file9,076 changes between the two download
As at 31 Dec 2026Next Ofsted file expected early 2027; the next change file follows it