Sixth Form Education: Free School Meals

(asked on 17th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether he has plans to extend the funding of free school meals over the 2020 summer holiday to students studying in (a) sixth form colleges and (b) 16-19 academies.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 9th July 2020

Provision for free school meals is ordinarily term time only. However, owing to the COVID-19 outbreak, the government fully understands that children and parents face an unprecedented situation over the summer. To reflect this, we will be providing additional funding for a COVID Summer Food Fund which will enable families with school children who are eligible for free school meals to receive food vouchers covering the six-week holiday period.

Our guidance on the COVID Summer Food Fund is available here:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/covid-summer-food-fund.

More information on free school meals for students in 16 to 19 provision over the summer will be announced shortly.

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