Doncaster Council

Free School Meals

If your children are under 20 and in full-time education, you may be able to get free school meals for them. You can get free school meals for your children if:

• You or your partner get Income Support or income-based Jobseeker's Allowance;
• You or your partner get the Guarantee part of State Pension Credit;
• You or your partner get Child Tax Credit but do not get Working Tax Credit and the Inland Revenue have worked out your income is less than £15,575 a year. (We will need to see your latest Child Tax Credit award letter (TC602) from the Inland Revenue).
• You or your partner receive support under part 6 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.                 

If you think you may be entitled to free school meals you should fill an application form in and send it to us straight away. You should carry on paying for your children's school meals until you hear from us.

If you are entitled to free school meals, we write and tell you the date your entitlement begins. If you have paid for any meals after this date, we will send you a refund form to claim the money back.

If your child goes to a school in another authority's area, please contact that authority about claiming free school meals.

You can download an Adobe Acrobat version of our form. You must print the form and send it to us by post.

• Application Form for Free School Meals