{"id":399,"date":"2020-04-02T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/?p=399"},"modified":"2020-04-02T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T08:21:47","slug":"free-school-meals-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/2020\/04\/02\/free-school-meals-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Free School Meals- COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Friday 3 April there are new arrangements in place for children who are entitled to free school meals. Instead of packed lunches, \u00a330 PayPoint vouchers will be sent directly to you f<strong>ortnightly<\/strong>\u00a0using the mobile phone numbers or email addresses South Lanarkshire Council already hold for you. If they don&#8217;t have your number\u00a0or email they\u00a0will post the vouchers to you.\u00a0<strong>Parents\/carers of eligible children do not need to apply for this payment.\u00a0<\/strong>The first \u00a330 payments will be made on Friday 3 April, covering weeks commencing 30 March and 6 April.\u00a0Payments will be made only to those entitled to means-tested free school meals. This includes children in Primaries 1 to 3, who will be assessed for free school meal entitlement. Again, this is in line with Scottish Government guidelines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Friday 3 April there are new arrangements in place for children who are entitled to free school meals. Instead of packed lunches, \u00a330 PayPoint vouchers will be sent directly to you fortnightly\u00a0using the mobile phone numbers or email addresses South Lanarkshire Council already hold for you. If they don&#8217;t have your number\u00a0or email they\u00a0will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/2020\/04\/02\/free-school-meals-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Free School Meals- COVID-19&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sl\/rigsideprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}