School Meals
Please find a link below to our school meal provider’s website and a copy of the latest menu:
School meals cost £2.71 per day for children in Years 3 to 6.
The cost of a meal for Nursery children is £2.32 per day.
Universal Free School Meals
You may be aware that the Government announced that, from September 2014, funding is provided to enable schools to offer a free lunch to every infant age child (Reception, Year 1 and Year 2). Pilot projects found that universal free school meals can have significant benefits both for individual children and for the broader life of the school. Stockport Council fully supports the initiative and encourages families to take up the free lunch offer which will provide the children of Stockport with a healthy and nutritious meal.
Free School Meals and Clothing Grants
Eligibility
If you are in receipt of Income Support, Income-Based Job Seeker’s Allowance, Income related Employment and Support Allowance, Universal Credit (provided your household income is less than £7,400 a year after tax and not including any benefits you get), support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, the guaranteed element of State Pension Credit, Child Tax Credit (provided you are not entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual gross income of no more than £16,190 or Working Tax Credit run-on paid for 4 weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit you will be eligible for Free School Meals.
If your child is eligible for free school meals, they'll remain eligible until they finish the phase of schooling (primary or secondary) they're in. If you have a query about free school meals you can email benefitsfsm@stockport.gov.uk
Free School Meals could save you up to £437 per year for each child.
By applying for Free School Meals you could also trigger additional resources for your children’s school through the Pupil Premium. For every child registered, and entitled, the school gets £1,345 to help children from lower income families.
If you don’t want your child to have the school meals they can continue as normal – as long as you qualify and are registered, the school will still receive the additional funding.
How to apply
If you are making a claim for Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support then you don’t need to make a separate claim for Free School Meals. You can request Free School Meals on the same form and we will assess your entitlement at the same time.
You can apply for Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support from the Benefits homepage.
If you do not need to claim Housing Benefit or Council Tax Support and only want to claim Free School Meals then you should fill in an online claim form.
You should also make a claim online if you are already receiving Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support and one of your children starts full-time nursery or school maintained by the Local Authority.
Access the Free School Meals online claim form.
Once you have completed the online form and submitted it, it will be sent straight to the Free School Meals Team to be processed.
You do not have to send in proof of your qualifying income as we will verify your claim with the Department for Work and Pensions.
Please note
If your child is not attending a Stockport school, you must make your claim for Free School Meals with the Authority who is educating your child.
Schools cannot provide free meals to children until it has been authorised by the Council.
Clothing Grants
You can apply for this grant if you have a child / children in years 7 to 11 at secondary school who receive free school meals.
If you have a child in year 7, you will receive the compulsory badged uniform. If you have a child in years 8 to 11, you will receive a £40 credit to spend at the nominated school uniform supplier.