{"id":2386,"date":"2020-03-27T16:48:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/?p=2386"},"modified":"2020-03-27T16:49:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:49:15","slug":"new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/?p=2386","title":{"rendered":"New direct payment system for free school meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/\" title=\"Find your local PayPoint store | PayPoint\">Find your local PayPoint store <\/a> and enter your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email the free school meals team on: <a href=\"mailto:&#x46;&#x4D;&#x45;&#x40;&#x6E;&#x6F;&#x72;&#x74;&#x68;&#x6C;&#x61;&#x6E;&#x2E;&#x67;&#x6F;&#x76;&#x2E;&#x75;&#x6B;\">FME@northlan.gov.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new payment system is being set up for pupils who receive free school meals. It will start on Friday 27 March and run<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/?p=2386\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2386\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/banton\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}