Services
- Childcare - services for childminders
- Early years grant
- Education maintenance allowance
- Free school meals
- Grants - education maintenance award
- Musical instruments - assisted purchase scheme
- Nursery and childminding grants
- Schools - clothing grants and vouchers
- Schools - maintenance grants
- Schools - travel grants
Free school meals
The Education (Scotland) Act 1980 as amended gives the education authority:
- Powers to provide milk, meals or other refreshment for pupils at its schools;
- a duty to provide them free of charge to pupils whose parents are in receipt of Income Support or Income-based Jobseekers' Allowance (qualifying benefits);
- a duty to accommodate the consumption of packed lunches.
It is Council policy to provide meals (and milk in the case of nursery & primary pupils) for all who wish to take them.
Free School Meals
Pupils with parents in receipt of Income Support, Income-based Jobseekers' Allowance or Child Tax Credit (CTC) only and whose annual income is £15,575 (as at April 2008) or less, are entitled to a free mid-day meal.
Free mid-day meals are also provided, regardless of the above entitlement, to all pupils at Cedarbank, Beatlie and Pinewood Schools. No application from a parent is necessary.
Free School Milk
All pupils of nursery schools and classes, all P1-3 pupils, P4-7 pupils whose parents are in receipt of a qualifying benefit and all pupils at Cedarbank, Beatlie and Pinewood Schools where consumption of the milk is part of the educational programme as agreed with Psychological Services, are entitled to 0.25 litre of milk daily free of charge.
For more information on school meals and milk please see the School Meals and Milk Policy under 'Online Tools' on the right. An application form for Free School Meals (and Milk where applicable) is also available on the right.