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The early years funding benchmarking tool and the early years proforma covers all local authorities in England. These funding tools show projected spending in the 2023 to 2024 financial year to provide early entitlement places for 2-, 3- and 4-year-olds.
Local authorities can use these tools to compare their local systems and outcomes against other local authorities. They can use these comparisons to support improvements in fairness and increase value for money.
Early years providers, parents and others can use these tools to:
understand the early education system in their area
understand decisions taken by local authorities
compare these to other local authorities
The technical note and user guide explains the methodology behind the data, and how to use the tools.
The documents Early years funding benchmarking tool and Early years funding proforma are not accessible because they include macros. This means they do not meet web content accessibility guidelines success criteria 1.3.2, on meaningful sequence, or 1.3.1, on info and relationships.
Published 14 March 2014 Last updated 29 November 2023 +show all updates
Routine annual update to the 'Early years funding benchmarking tool', 'Early years funding proforma' and 'Early years benchmarking: technical note and user guide'.
Routine annual update to the 'Early years funding benchmarking tool', 'Early years funding proforma' and 'Early years benchmarking: technical note and user guide'
Routine annual update to the 'Early years funding benchmarking tool', 'Early years funding proforma' and 'Early years benchmarking: technical note and user guide'.
Made routine annual update to the 'Early years funding benchmarking tool', 'Early years funding proforma' and 'Early years benchmarking: technical note and user guide'.
