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School Meals
School Meals
Free school meals can save you hundreds of pounds a year.
They will also help raise money for your school because of the Pupil Premium, a government commitment to pay schools £430 a year for each pupil registered as entitled to free school meals. This is money the school can benefit from, funding new equipment or maybe new teaching staff.
Free school meals may be provided for your children if you as a parent are in receipt of :
•Income Support
•Income Based Job Seekers Allowance
•Income-related Employment and Support Allowance (this benefit was introduced on 27 October 2008)
•The Guarantee Element of State Pension Credit
•Support under part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
•Child Tax Credit (but not Working Tax Credit) and have an annual income of less then £16,190.
Nursery aged children eligible for Free School Meals must be receiving education before and after lunch to be entitled to Free School Meals.
Applying for Free School Meals
If you wish to apply for Free School Meals please complete our online application form here.
If you require any further information about Free School Meals, please contact the Information and Advice Centre on 020 8547 5004 or email freeschoolmeals@rbk.kingston.gov.uk
If you are unable to complete an online application form, you can apply at your child's school or at the Council Information and Advice Centre in Guildhall 2 in Kingston upon Thames.
In recent years, school meals have radically changed and new government food standards for school lunches have been implemented, along with the introduciton of nutrient standards which are monitored during school Ofsted inspections.
In addition, the School Food Trust was set up in 2005 with £15 million of funding from the DfES to promote the education and health of children and young people by improving the quality of food supplied and consumed in schools.