Nursery providers Bright Horizons, Childbase Partnership and Grace’s Day Nursery have been named in a list of the best UK workplaces.

Bright Horizons ranked thirteenth in the Super Large category at the Best Workplaces Awards, run by Great Place to Work. It is the nineteenth year that the nursery group has appeared on the list.

Ros Marshall, UK managing director at Bright Horizons, said: “We are very proud to be included in the UK’s Best Workplaces list again this year and are honoured to be the only company from the early years sector that has been included in this list for so long.”

She added: “At Bright Horizons, we strongly encourage our colleagues to be  authentic and enable them to be themselves at work. We actively encourage and promote diversity and individuality, recognising that our collective lived experiences contribute to an environment that enables everyone to flourish.”

Janine Leightley, HR director at Bright Horizons said: “We are proud of our people and invest in them so they can be at their best. We have already established improved levels of pay as well as other forms of support for all our highly valued teams, from apprentices and graduates to deputies and managers.”

Childbase Partnership was ranked at 25 in the Super Large list, while Grace’s Day Nursery, which comprises two settings in Kent, ranked 28 in the Medium category.

Organisations were ranked according to evaluations of employee survey responses and culture audits from leaders at each company.