{"id":4439,"date":"2020-03-26T13:21:30","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:21:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:21:30","slug":"new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"New direct payment system for free school meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/index.aspx?articleid=34915\">https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/index.aspx?articleid=34915<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"introtext\">\n<p>Important information for parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\">\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\/\">https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/<\/a>\u00a0and enter your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email the free school meals team on: <a href=\"mailto:FME@northlan.gov.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">FME@northlan.gov.uk<\/a><\/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>https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/index.aspx?articleid=34915 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 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). 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. You can use the<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4441,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions\/4441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/CHSFP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}