Free School Meal Application Form

Dear Parent/Carer

We want to make sure that we are providing your child with the best education and support we can.
Healthy school food has obvious health benefits and can help pupils establish healthy habits for life.
Healthy school food can also help to improve pupils’ readiness to learn.

Families who receive certain benefits may be eligible for free school meals. Your child is eligible for free
school meals if you’re in receipt of one of the following benefits:

• Universal Credit with an annual net earned income of no more than £7,400.
• Income Support
• Income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999
• The guarantee element of Pension Credit
• Working Tax Credit run-on (paid for the four weeks after you stop qualifying for Working Tax Credit)
• Child Tax Credit (with no Working Tax Credit) with an annual income of no more than £16,190

Registering for free meals could also raise an extra £935 for your child’s secondary school, to fund
valuable support like extra tuition, additional teaching staff or after school activities. This additional
money is available from central government for every child whose parent is receiving one of the benefits
listed above.

Applications for Free School Meals at Nene Park Academy are now administered through Cambridgeshire County Council.  To check if your child is eligible, you need to apply to Cambridge County Council. Making an application is quick and simple to do using the online application form at www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/freeschoolmeals selecting “no” when asked if you have had a previous claim.

Applications for Free School Meals in the Peterborough Authority area are now administered through Cambridgeshire County Council.  When prompted “I confirm that Cambridgeshire County Council is the Authority which processes free school meal applications for my child’s school”, you should click “Yes”.

If you do not have internet access you can give the Team a call on 01223 703200, and they can send you a form to complete by post. Paper forms should be returned to;

Education Welfare Benefits Team, (Free School Meals)

Box No ALC2606

New Shire Hall

Emery Crescent

Enterprise Crescent

Enterprise Campus

Alconbury Weald

Huntingdon

PE28 4YE

Thank you