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Check if your child can get free school meals - and find out how to apply on your local authority’s website.
Guidance for schools and local authorities about providing school meals including information on free school meal eligibility.
Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2022 to 2023 academic year.
Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2023 to 2024 academic year.
Model form that schools can use to determine which children are eligible for free school meals and the pupil premium.
Find out about the type of healthy food all maintained schools and academies in England have to provide under the school food standards.
User guide for the download of historical free school meals eligibility data for schools and local authorities.
Statistics on free school meal entitlement in the current system and the impact on this of the announced extension to all infant school pupils
Statistics on free school meals in schools in England as collected in the October 2020 school census.
Explanation of the analysis underpinning the recent changes to free school meals eligibility.
Research looking at the most recent estimates of the number of pupils entitled to receive free school meals but who are not claiming.
Guidance to help provide free meals to disadvantaged 16 to 18 year old students in further education funded institutions.
The newly acquired LEO database links education data with earnings and benefits data at the population level, allowing outcomes to be explored with greater granularity than before. This publication is the first in a series looking at the links between...
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