{"id":4480,"date":"2026-02-16T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/?page_id=4480"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:45:00","slug":"free-school-meals-clothing-grants","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/free-school-meals-clothing-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Free School Meals &amp; Clothing Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"ace-paragraph-table\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All children from Primary 1 to Primary 7 are automatically entitled to Free School Meals. Please check the table below to see if your child may be entitled to a clothing grant or free school meals.<\/p>\n<p>More information and application details can be found here: <span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff\" href=\"https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/schools-and-learning\/school-meals\/free-school-meals-and-clothing-grants\">Free school meals and clothing grants | North Lanarkshire Council<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<caption>Free school meals and clothing grant eligibility table<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Benefits received<\/th>\n<th>School meals<\/th>\n<th>Clothing grant<\/th>\n<th>Proof required<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Income Support<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Letter confirming entitlement to benefit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Job Seekers Allowance (Income-based)<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Letter confirming entitlement to benefit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Employment &amp; Support Allowance (Income Related)<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Letter confirming entitlement to benefit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Universal Credit (earned income reported by employer of less than \u00a3850)<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Letter confirming entitlement to benefit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Support under V1 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Confirmation letter\/Home Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Housing Benefit\u00a0(housing element of Universal Credit is not housing benefit)<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Current Letter to show receipt of Housing Benefit<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Council Tax Reduction (Single persons discount\/exemption is not council tax reduction)<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>Current Letter to show receipt of Council Tax rebate<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>P6 &amp; P7 Scottish Child Payment<\/td>\n<td>Yes<\/td>\n<td>No<\/td>\n<td>Letter confirming entitlement \/ Bank Statement showing Scottish Child Payment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ace-paragraph-basic-paragraph\">\n<div class=\"ace-field-body\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Your child can also receive free school meals if they are the subject of a kinship care, guardianship order or if they are, or have been at any point since their second birthday, &#8216;looked after&#8217;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; All children from Primary 1 to Primary 7 are automatically entitled to Free School Meals. Please check the table below to see if your child may be entitled to a clothing grant or free school meals. More information and application details can be found here: Free school meals and clothing grants | North Lanarkshire Council &nbsp; Free school meals and clothing grant eligibility table Benefits received School meals Clothing<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/free-school-meals-clothing-grants\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12810,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4480","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/StIgnatius\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}