7 Universal Credit and Free School Meals - CUS/20/155 PDF 221 KB
Decision:
The Committee resolved:-
(i) to note that the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment would circulate information to Members outwith the meeting on the number of children entitled to free school meals who did not take up the offer;
(ii) to agree to introduce a policy of extending free school meal entitlement to families in receipt of Universal credit in respect of:
(a) Single claimants working less than 16 hours per week with a gross annual income of less than £16,105; and
(b) Joint claimants working less than 24 hours per week with a gross annual income of less than £16,105; and
(iii) to instruct the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to implement the extended provision from 26 October 2020.
Minutes:
With reference to article 8 of the minute of its meeting of 16 May 2019, the Committee had before it a report by the Director of Customer Services which had been prepared in response to the Committee instruction that officers investigate whether the Council should develop a free school meals policy to address anomalies in legislation following the implementation of Universal Credit.
The report recommended:-
that the Committee –
(a) agree to introduce a policy of extending free school meal entitlement to families in receipt of Universal credit in respect of:
(i) Single claimants working less than 16 hours per week with a gross annual income of less than £16,105; and
(ii) Joint claimants working less than 24 hours per week with a gross annual income of less than £16,105; and
(b) instruct the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment to implement the extended provision from 26 October 2020.
The Committee resolved:-
(i) to note that the Chief Officer – Early Intervention and Community Empowerment would circulate information to Members outwith the meeting on the number of children entitled to free school meals who did not take up the offer; and
(ii) to approve the recommendations.