The schools - some of which receive local authority funding - are potentially putting children at risk, warns the inspectorate. Some have poor facilities and hygiene, untrained and unchecked staff, and "little care for children's health and wellbeing".
Ofsted has carried out 780 inspections and investigations of suspected unregistered settings since a specialist taskforce was set up more than three years ago.
Ofsted pledges, where necessary, to prosecute such settings, which do not benefit from any formal external oversight of safeguarding, health and safety, or quality of education.
In total, 71 settings have been issued with a warning notice by inspectors. Some 15 of those have since closed, while 39 have changed the way they operate in order to comply with the law, and nine have registered as independent schools.
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