Free School Meals

Children and young people can have free school meals, if their family is receiving: 

• income-based jobseeker's allowance;
• income-related employment and support allowance;  or
• child tax credit, (provided you’re not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190)

The school will ask to see a letter showing that the young person or their family is currently receiving one of these payments.

You can check if your child is eligible for free school meals by using this checker: https://pps.lgfl.org.uk/
Then please provide confirmation (or a screen-shot) from this checker to the team at [javascript protected email address]

You will need to contact your child's school directly for more information and to apply.
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The government have permanently extended free school meal eligibility to include some children of groups who have no recourse to public funds (NRPF), subject to maximum income thresholds.

These groups include, but may not be limited to children of:

• Zambrano carers
• families who have no recourse to public funds with a right to remain in the UK on grounds of private and family life under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights
• families receiving support under Section 17 of the Children Act 1989 who are also subject to a no recourse to public funds restriction
• a subset of failed asylum seekers supported under Section 4 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• Chen carers
• families holding a BN(O) passport
• spousal visa holders
• work visa holders
• student visa holders
• those with no immigration status

The maximum income threshold differs based on your location and the number of children that your family has.

More details are on the GOV.UK website.