{"id":1270,"date":"2022-02-23T22:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2022-02-23T22:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T22:49:46","slug":"school-age-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/2022\/02\/23\/school-age-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"School Age Payment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/ibrox\/uploads\/sites\/8841\/2022\/02\/23224854\/5-Family-Payments-School-Age-Payment-poster.pdf\">5-Family-Payments-School-Age-Payment-poster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>School Age Payment applications close for children who were born between 1 March 2016 and 28 February 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The payment is \u00a3252.50 per child to help families with the costs associated with a child starting at Primary School.<\/p>\n<p>People who get tax credits or certain benefits are encouraged to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Parents or carers who have deferred their child&#8217;s entry to school from August 2021 to August 2022, or those home schooling, must still apply before the 28 February closing date or they will lose out on their payment.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link with the relevant info\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mygov.scot\/best-start-grant-best-start-foods\">Best Start Grant and Best Start Foods &#8211; mygov.scot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know the payment can make a real difference and any help you can give us to inform parents, guardians and families would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions or queries please don&#8217;t hesitate to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5-Family-Payments-School-Age-Payment-poster School Age Payment applications close for children who were born between 1 March 2016 and 28 February 2017. The payment is \u00a3252.50 per child to help families with the costs associated with a child starting at Primary School. People &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/2022\/02\/23\/school-age-payment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/ibrox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}