The extent to which specialist support for all early years settings, childminders, schools and practitioners now varies widely is revealed in responses to Freedom of Information requests made by members of Early Education.
The findings show that the local authority advisory support that previously existed for early years providers is no longer universal.
The survey draws on a random sample of local authorities based on where Early Education has members. It shows that there are LAs both cutting heavily and increasing early years support in different parts of the country.
Eleven local authorities were asked about the number of staff on their early years teams in 2009 and 2014.
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