Merge pull request #408 from SpiNNakerManchester/cfg_checker #1424

Job	Run time
call / checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.13)	4s
call / tests (windows-latest, 3.12, tests)	2m 11s
call / checks (ubuntu-24.04, 3.11)	2m 14s
call / validate (ubuntu-latest, 3.12, validate)	3m 19s
call / tests (windows-2019, 3.8, tests)	2m 12s
call / checks (ubuntu-latest, 3.10)	2m 19s
call / tests (macos-latest, 3.12, tests)	1m 40s
call / checks (ubuntu-22.04, 3.9)	2m 25s
call / tests (macos-12, 3.8, tests)	1m 55s
call / checks (ubuntu-20.04, 3.8)	2m 13s
	20m 32s

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