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26 June 2024
Families who qualify for free school meals based on financial criteria will receive a payment of £76.80 to cover the summer holidays (32 days). This payment will be in bank accounts on or around Friday 28 June 2024.
You will receive a payment for each eligible child if you have a child currently in:
- P1-P5 who is in receipt of school clothing grant
- P6-S6 who is in receipt of free school meals during term time.
If you are not already in receipt of school clothing grant or free school meals, you can check your eligibility and apply on our website.
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Raising awareness of financially sexual extortion
All schools in the UK have recently been sent information from the National Crime Agency, raising awareness of the recent rise in reporting of financially motivated sexual extortion (a type of online blackmail often known in the media as ‘sextortion’). Children and young people worldwide are being targeted.
This type of crime involves an adult offender threatening to release nude or semi-nude images and/or videos of a child or young person, unless they pay money, or meet another financial demand, such as purchasing a pre-paid gift card.
Victims of any age and gender can be targets, however a large proportion of cases have involved male victims aged 14-18. A child or young person is never to blame if they have been a victim. Offenders will have tricked, groomed and/or manipulated them into sharing an image.
You can find out more about online blackmail, talking to your child about it and where to get help if this has happened to your child on the CEOP Education’s parents and carers website.
Now’s a good time to check your child is protected against measles
Cases of measles are on the rise. With the summer break just around the corner and the school term nearing an end, now is a good time to check if your child is fully vaccinated against measles.
The MMR vaccine is offered free by NHS Scotland and is over 95% effective in protecting against measles. Measles can lead to serious and potentially life-threatening complications. This is why it’s important to check your child has had two doses of the MMR vaccine.
They should have had doses when they were a baby and before they started primary school, but it’s never too late to catch up if they missed a dose. You can find out how to check your child is fully protected at nhsinform.scot/MMRagainstmeasles
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