free school meals
Government-funded cafeteria food
Free school meals are meals provided at no cost to students from low-income families, funded by government programs.
In the UK, eligibility for free school meals serves as a widely used indicator of socioeconomic disadvantage in education research and policy: The achievement gap between pupils on free school meals and their peers remains significant.
Often abbreviated FSM.
- lunchMidday meal
- cafeteriaSelf-service dining facility
- dinner ladySchool cafeteria staff member
- subsidizedOffset by external funding
- eligibilityState of meeting criteria
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- School Dinnersfish fingers, chips, mashed potatoes, peas, custard
- British educationprimary education, secondary education, national curriculum, sixth form, A-levels
- UK Policytax policy, economic policy, education policy, health policy, housing policy
- UK Benefitshousing benefit, child benefit, income support, child tax credit, state pension
- UK Welfarebenefits office, welfare office, welfare state, income support, housing benefit
- UK Schoolsacademies, sixth form, academy