{"id":4292,"date":"2020-04-01T14:04:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2020-04-01T14:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:04:35","slug":"new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/2020\/04\/01\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New direct payment system for free school meals &#8211; COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<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<div class=\"rimage\">\n<div class=\"imageblock\">\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"North Lanarkshire Council logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northlanarkshire.gov.uk\/media\/image\/o\/e\/NLC_Logo_300px.png\" alt=\"North Lanarkshire Council logo\" \/><\/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\/\">https:\/\/consumer.paypoint.com\/<\/a>\u00a0and enter your postcode.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please email the free school meals team on: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external\">FME@northlan.gov.uk<span class=\"tooltip\" title=\"Opens new window\">Opens new window<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funding for the additional element of this provision has come from the \u00a33m emergency fund, which has been set up by the council to deal with the health crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are aware of fraudulent emails circulating asking for bank details of those with children entitled to free school meals.<br \/>\nPlease be aware that we do not require your bank details.<\/strong><\/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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/2020\/04\/01\/new-direct-payment-system-for-free-school-meals-covid-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmaryscleland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}