Guidance

Further education free meals: advice for FE funded institutions

Advice to help institutions meet the requirement to provide free meals to disadvantaged 16 to 18 year old students in further education (FE).

• From: Education Funding Agency
• Published: 16 April 2014
• Last updated: 15 September 2014 — See all updates

This publication was withdrawn on 6 August 2015

This information relates to the 2014 to 2015 academic year. Information about the 2015 to 2016 academic year can be found on GOV.UK.

Documents

Further education free meals: advice for futher education funded institutions

Ref: EFA 00377-2014

PDF, 251 KB, 14 pages

Application to make cash awards to students

MS Word Document, 78.5 KB

Requirement on FE funded institutions: presentation

PDF, 99.6 KB, 7 pages

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Allocations methodology: presentation

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Details

Further education (FE) funded institutions will be required to provide free meals to disadvantaged students who are aged 16 and over, starting in September 2014. School and academy sixth forms already have to provide free meals to disadvantaged students who are over 16.

EFA has published 3 online presentations on the Department for Education YouTube channel about FE free meals. These presentations are available below, and accompanying slide packs are available in the documents section on this page.

Requirements for institutions

requirements for institutions

Allocations

allocations

Q&A session

Q & A session

If you have any queries please contact the Education Funding Agency territory team for your region:

• North - ypnorthern.efa@education.gsi.gov.uk
• South - ypsouthern.efa@education.gsi.gov.uk
• Central and South West - ypcentralsw.efa@education.gsi.gov.uk

Published 16 April 2014
Last updated 15 September 2014 + show all updates

1. 15 September 2014

   Policy clarification has been made to the free meals guide to cover whether institutions can "top up" the free meals in further education funding rate of £2.41.

2. 16 July 2014

   Online presentations added

3. 16 April 2014

   First published.