Free School Meals
(asked on 1st December 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, which local authorities have signed up to the online free school meal eligibility checking service.
This question was answered on 5th December 2014
All 152 English local authorities are signed up to the Eligibility Checking System (ECS).
The ECS can be used to determine entitlement to both free school meals and free early education for two-year-olds, and the pattern of checks and frequency of use is different for each local authority.