If you haven't yet discovered the Foundation Years Benchmarking Tool, then do go and have a look - but make sure you've got some spare time because it proves to be quite addictive.
The funding of the free entitlement function, where you can compare different local authorities' spending on early years as a proportion of the Dedicated Schools Grant, the amount spent per child in PVI settings, nursery schools and primary schools, and the amount 'centrally retained' by each authority, is the part that will be leapt upon by settings and councils.
For example, the proportion of the DSG spent on early years varies from 3.3 per cent to 10.9 per cent across the country.
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