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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM): 2024 to 2025

Published allocations and conditions of grant for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.

Applies to England

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Universal infant free school meals (UIFSM) provide funding for all government funded schools to offer free school meals to pupils in reception, year 1, and year 2.

Schools and local authorities must follow the terms and conditions set out in the conditions of grant.

Published allocations

The allocations spreadsheets contain the provisional UIFSM allocations for the 2024 to 2025 academic year for each school.

The allocations for the first 2024 to 2025 payments were calculated using the 2023 to 2024 academic year UIFSM funding rate. It has now been confirmed that a further uplift to £2.58 will be implemented for the 2024 to 2025 academic year.  This additional payment will be delivered alongside the final allocation for 2024 to 2025 in June/July 2025 and backdated to the start of the academic year.

Updates to this page

Published 24 June 2024
Last updated 4 December 2024 + show all updates
  1. We have updated the conditions of grant section 2 (funding rates and allocations) and paragraph 2.2 following the announcement of the uplift to the 2024 to 2025 UIFSM funding rate.

  2. We have added the new opener provisional revenue funding allocations spreadsheet.

  3. First published.

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