Parents claiming some benefits can claim free school meals for any of their children who are registered at a Staffordshire school and who would normally be at school at lunch time. School meals are a good way to ensure that your child eats well at lunchtime, and you can save yourself time and money. Even if you don't want your children to have the meals, claiming them helps their school. The more eligible parents who claim meals, the more funding the school receives for PUPIL PREMIUM.

In England, children at key stages 1-4 in state-funded schools are entitled to receive Free School Meals if their parents or carers are in receipt of any of the following benefits:

• Income Support
• Income-based jobseekers Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit (provided they are not also entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190, as assessed by Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs)
• Working Tax Credit run-on – paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit
• During the initial roll out of the benefit, Universal Credit

 

For Free School Meals Self-online Check or more information, please follow the link www.staffordshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals

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Additional Funding for Pupils Eligible for Free School Meals

St. Gabriel’s Catholic Primary School receives a pupil premium allocation for children eligible for free school meals, for children who have been looked after continuously for more than six months and for those children whose parents/carers currently serve in the armed forces.

Schools are permitted to allocate the pupil premium allocation as they see fit. We as a school will be held accountable for how we have used the additional funding. From September 2012 we are required to publish information on line about how the pupil premium has been spent; please see below: