{"id":2225,"date":"2020-03-26T13:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2020-03-26T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:26:18","slug":"new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/","title":{"rendered":"New direct payment system for free school meals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Important information for parents and carers of pupils who receive free school meals<\/p>\n<p>A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals &#8211; this 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 https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/<br \/>\nand enter your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email the free school meals team on: FME@northlan.gov.uk<\/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","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; this includes all primary 1 to primary 3 pupils. It will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/2020\/03\/26\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31895,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,12686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-whole-school"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31895"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/TownheadPrimaryBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}