{"id":1476,"date":"2024-02-22T14:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T14:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/?page_id=1476"},"modified":"2025-09-03T10:26:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T10:26:15","slug":"financial-support-for-families","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/financial-support-for-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Support for Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Free School Meals and Clothing Grants<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Falkirk Council provide Free School Meals, and financial support towards the cost of School Clothing and Footwear for families that meet certain eligibility criteria.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do I qualify for an award?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To be eligible, you should normally be resident in the Falkirk Council area and your child(ren) must attend any\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/benefits\/free-school-meals-and-school-clothing-grants\/faq-applications\">primary, special or secondary school<\/a>\u00a0managed by Falkirk Council.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More information regarding Free School Meals and Clothing Grant can be found on our website and FAQ\u2019s at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/fsm\">falkirk.gov.uk\/fsm<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Other Support<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are other sources of support which may be available to families, depending on your circumstances.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant\/\">Best Start Grant: Pregnancy and Baby Payment<\/a> \u2013 Payments for parents of new-borns, or those currently expecting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-best-start-foods\/\">Best Start Foods<\/a> \u2013 Payments for parents of children up to 3 years old.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant\/\">Best Start Grant: Early Learning Payment<\/a> \u2013 Payment for parents with children aged between 2 and 3 and half years old.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-new\/\">Best Start Grant: School Age Payment<\/a> \u2013 Payment for parents of children starting Primary School.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/ema\">Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)<\/a> \u2013 Financial support for 16 -19 year olds continuing at high school.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/young.scot\/the-young-scot-card\/\">Young Scot<\/a> \u2013 The Young Scot National Entitlement Card is available free of charge to everyone aged 11-25 living in Scotland.\u00a0\u00a0 It can be used to receive discounts, for rewards, and also as proof of age.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/transport\/young-persons-free-bus-travel-scheme\">Young Persons&#8217; Free Bus Travel Scheme<\/a> &#8211; Young people aged between 5 and 21 years old are eligible for free bus travel from 31 January 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/benefits\/help-with-welfare-benefits\">Help with Welfare Benefits<\/a> \u2013 Find out if you are claiming all of the support you are entitled to and speak to an adviser for further advice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/benefits\/help-to-manage-money\">Other support for families<\/a> &#8211; Any family facing financial insecurity can also contact our\u00a0Support for people team\u00a0for assistance or sign posting to other support. The team can be contacted on 0808 100 3161.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free School Meals and Clothing Grants Falkirk Council provide Free School Meals, and financial support towards the cost of School Clothing and Footwear for families that meet certain eligibility criteria. &nbsp; Do I qualify for an award? To be eligible, you should normally be resident in the Falkirk Council area and your child(ren) must attend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/financial-support-for-families\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Financial Support for Families<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12161,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1476","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1476"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1577,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1476\/revisions\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/fa\/eastercarmuirs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}