{"id":7588,"date":"2020-03-26T14:04:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/?p=7588"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:04:24","slug":"new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"New direct payment system for free school meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"introtext\">\n<p><strong>Important information for parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\n<div class=\"rimage\">\n<div class=\"imageblock\">\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals &#8211;\u00a0this includes all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils.<\/p>\n<p>It will start on Friday 27 March and run throughout the current health crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals will be sent a message twice a week from the council. It will include a voucher code for \u00a310.00 (you will receive a total of \u00a320.00 per child per week).<\/p>\n<p>The message will be sent either as a text message to your mobile phone, by email or as a printed copy if you don&#8217;t have internet access.<\/p>\n<p>You can use the voucher code at any shop that accepts Pay Point, for a list of your local Pay Point retailers visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/<\/a>\u00a0and enter your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email the free school meals team on:\u00a0<strong>FME@northlan.gov.uk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Funding for this came from the \u00a33m emergency fund, which has been set up by the council to deal with the health crisis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important information for parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals &#8211;\u00a0this includes all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils. It will start on Friday 27 March and run throughout the current health crisis. Parents and carers of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New direct payment system for free school meals<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13766,"featured_media":7537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14908],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whole-school-news","tag-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/public\/Braidhurst\/uploads\/sites\/12229\/2020\/03\/20163413\/nlc-logo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7589,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions\/7589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/Braidhurst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}