Free School Meals: Voucher Schemes

(asked on 19th March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, when he plans to launch the national voucher system for free school meals.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 24th March 2020

While schools are closed to help reduce the spread of coronavirus, they will be able to provide meals or vouchers for supermarkets or local shops for families. The government has confirmed that the total value of vouchers offered to each eligible child per week will exceed the rate it pays to schools for free school meals.

In addition to this, we are working to consider options to support children who receive a free breakfast through our contracts with Family Action and Magic Breakfast.

We are continuing to work on a national approach to supporting free school meal pupils and will announce further details and relevant dates in due course.

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