Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.Income-related Employment and Support Allowance.In England in 2020, children in state-funded schools were entitled to receive free school meals if a parent or carer were in receipt of any of the following benefits: This publication aims to fill the gap between annual publications and provide a more timely picture of how the numbers of pupils eligible for FSM has changed. Official statistics on the number of pupils eligible for free school meals as reported in the Spring census are typically published annually in the National Statistics release “Schools, pupils and their characteristics” available at. As the most recent official statistics correspond to January 2020 and are prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are publishing this data to present a more timely view of free school meals in schools in England. The number of pupils eligible for free school meals on census day (1 October 2020) and the number of pupils who have become eligible since 23 March 2020, that is since the first COVID-19 lockdown was announced, are presented.ĭata on free school meal eligibility is collected in the Autumn school census but not routinely published. This release presents data on free school meals (FSM) as collected in the Autumn school census.

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