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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM): 2024 to 2025

Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Updates to this page

From:
Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education
Published:
24 June 2024
Last updated:
24 June 2025
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  1. We have added the spreadsheet Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) - final revenue payment for academic year 2024 to 2025 .

  2. We have updated the conditions of grant section 2 (funding rates and allocations) and paragraph 2.2 following the announcement of the uplift to the 2024 to 2025 UIFSM funding rate.

  3. We have added the new opener provisional revenue funding allocations spreadsheet.

  4. First published.

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Find the latest information in the local authorities: pre-16 schools funding  collection.

Applies to England

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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM): conditions of grant 2024 to 2025

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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) - final revenue payment for academic year 2024 to 2025 (June 2025)

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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) - provisional revenue allocations for academic year 2024 to 2025

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The Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) closed on 31 March 2025. All activity has moved to the Department for Education (DfE). You should continue to follow this guidance.

Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) provide funding for all government funded schools to offer free school meals to pupils in reception, year 1, and year 2.

Schools and local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the conditions of grant.

Published allocations

We have published the final UIFSM allocations for the 2024 to 2025 academic year for each school.

The allocations for the first 2024 to 2025 payments were calculated using the 2023 to 2024 academic year UIFSM funding rate. It has now been confirmed that a further uplift to £2.58 will be implemented for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.  This additional payment will be delivered alongside the final allocation for 2024 to 2025 in June/July 2025 and backdated to the start of the academic year.

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