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Useful InformationThe instructions on these pages are for schools purchasing vouchers/gift cards from supermarkets to distribute to pupils entitled to Free School Meals |
Using Supermarket Vouchers with SCO - General Information
Background:
In the wake of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak of 2020 many schools have been ordered to close. The problem for many families typically struggling for money and good meals for pupils is how to afford additional lunchtime meals usually covered by Free School Meals at school. With advice not to leave home, and school canteens shut, understaffed or not practical to get to daily for lunch, schools (under direction from the government) are looking to offer a secure way of getting FSM money to parents to be spent on food for pupils – via supermarket gift cards and vouchers.
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