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Coronavirus: Thousands of pupils with ‘no recourse to public funds’ to get free school meals

Children usually denied free school meals because of their parents’ immigration status have been granted temporary eligibility during the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE urges schools to stop checking swamped free meal voucher website, as system labelled ‘farcical’

Schools are being urged not to revisit the government’s national free school meal voucher website unable to cope with...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Schools CAN claim for own meal vouchers – but only if they meet funding criteria

Schools can apply to claim back the costs of issuing their own free meal vouchers if they decide not...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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DfE says Easter holiday FSM funding is one-off

The government has announced it will reimburse schools that have paid for free school meals for children out of...

James Carr
James Carr
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Free school meal vouchers WILL now be available over Easter

The government has today made a U-turn on its refusal to pay for free school meal vouchers over Easter...

John Dickens
John Dickens
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Coronavirus: Schools and councils step up to feed pupils over Easter

Schools, councils and academy trusts are delving into their own finances to make sure poorer pupils stuck at home...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: Pupils won’t get free school meal vouchers during Easter holidays

A national voucher scheme aimed at keeping the poorest children fed during school closures will not run throughout the...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: DfE confirms plans for £15-a-week free school meal vouchers

Six national supermarket chains have signed up to the government’s new national voucher scheme for free school meals. However...

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
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Coronavirus: FSM vouchers to provide ‘£3 per meal’, as caterers criticised for ‘shameful’ hampers

Pupils are set to get weekly supermarket vouchers totalling £15 to replace their free school meal entitlements under a...

John Dickens
John Dickens