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It can be used for anything from a warm coat to books and toys.<\/p>\n<p>Parents who have deferred their child\u2019s entry to school from August 2020 to August 2021, or those home educating, should still apply before the closing date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/9dae6e6d8313\/social-security-scotland-october-newsletter-5847012?e=f24844ced3\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/9dae6e6d8313\/social-security-scotland-october-newsletter-5847012?e=f24844ced3\">Click here to access the file. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deadline for families to apply for Best Start Grant School Age Payment is 28 February 2021. The one-off \u00a3250 payment is currently open to families with a child born between 1 March 2015 and 29 February 2016. It can be used for anything from a warm coat to books and toys. Parents who have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/2021\/01\/26\/deadline-approaches-for-best-start-grant-school-age-payment-applications\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deadline approaches for Best Start Grant School Age Payment applications<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[358493],"class_list":["post-17300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","tag-grant"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17302,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17300\/revisions\/17302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/IsobelMair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}