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DfE extends pupil premium to children with ‘no recourse to public funds’ after legal threat

Schools will be able to claim additional pupil premium funding for children with “no recourse to public funds” who were given temporary free school meals eligibility last year, following a legal threat. Last April, the Department for Education extended free school meals eligibility to children usually denied them because of their parents’ immigration status as […]

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 coronavirus outbreak. This is a welcome, albeit temporary, roll-back from another of the government’s hostile environment policies Legal experts estimate that thousands more children will now be able to receive free meals or vouchers following a […]