DfE has published an updated early years funding benchmarking tool for 2024 to 2025, which now incorporates the new early years entitlements.

You can view the early years funding benchmarking tool alongside the accompanying technical note and user guide, to view a local authority’s planned expenditure for the early years entitlements for the 2024 to 2025 financial year. It can also be used for comparison between local authorities.

Due to the publication of the updated tool, we have removed the ‘Early years funding proforma’ which was published in December 2024 and previously provided the data in a raw format.