Free School Meal Holidays

Free School Meals are provided to eligible children throughout school term time.

But, as a result of efforts from those in the public eye, such as Marcus Rashford, there has been pressure on the government to make such meals available to these same children out of term time too.

Responding to this many forward thinking councils, like Trafford MBC, now have this in place. Forward thinking because the benefits to children of nutritious meals on their overall long term outcomes are well understood.

IEG4 has developed a powerful, end to end online form and workflow solution that, as a result of powerful integration can enable 100% automation levels of such applications.

Online Application

The Application form captures the following data and has 5 integrations built into it that ensure:

a) the data received is high quality

b) only those that are eligible can successfully submit the form

c) fraudulent/repeat applications cannot be made

d) all decisions can be automated

Form Structure

The online form is short and simple to complete with 5 pages total:

The 'Guidance Notes' page is fully editable within edit mode.

The 'Who Are you' page asks about the applicant and the details on this are used to determine eligibility

The 'About Your Household' page asks about partner and children

The 'Payment' page asks about bank details

The 'Declaration' page is where they can review their answers and agree to your council's information governance and general declaration rules.

Form Questions

The following are the questions asked in the form:

• Applicant’s First name

• Applicant’s Last name

• Applicant’s DOB

• Applicant’s NINO

• Applicant’s Email address

• Applicant’s Telephone

• Applicant’s Address

  • Integration 1 - click here for more - Ordnance Survey

• Partner’s first name

• Partner’s Last name

• Partner’s DOB

• Partner’s NINO

  • Integration 2 - click here for more - OpenProcess

  • Integration 3 - click here for more - Department of Education Eligibility Checking Service

  • Integration 4 - click here for more - Benefit Check

• Number of dependent children resident in the household

  • For each child

    • Child’s first name

    • Child’s last name

    • Child’s DOB

    • That the school is in the council area

      • School attended

• Asks if they have a bank account

• Asks for their bank details including:

  • Sort Code

  • Account Number

  • Bank Account Name

  • Integration 5 - click here for more - Loqate Bank Check