Guidance to help provide free meals to disadvantaged 16 to 18 year old students in further education funded institutions.

Guidance to help provide free meals to disadvantaged 16 to 18 year old students in further education funded institutions.

Extra funding for free school meals in further education (FE)

Due to the unprecedented nature of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) are providing extra funding to enable FE institutions to continue to provide meals for the 2020 summer holiday. The funding is for students who were eligible and claiming for free meals in FE in the 2019 to 2020 academic year. Providers will receive £73 per student/instance. This is the free meals rate of £2.41 x 5 meals each week over the 6 week summer holiday period.

Institutions need to confirm arrangements and support with eligible students before the end of the summer term. We will update the free meals in FE guide to confirm further information and payment details. We will pay the first part of free meals allocations for the 2020 to 2021 academic year to institutions in August in line with the usual payment schedule.

This does not apply to 16 to 19 schools and academies who are able to access the free school meals national voucher scheme.

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