Financial Support
Free School Meals Information
https://www.nhs.uk/healthier-families/
Parents and carers who receive certain benefits may be eligible for either Pupil Premium funding or Free School Meals.
Please click on the link below and complete the online application form to apply for free school meals.
If you are successful, please make a note of the application reference and email this into the school office: office@kentshillpark.school
Please ensure you select KENTS HILL PARK SCHOOL
https://www.cloudforedu.org.uk/ofsm/sims/
For pupils with special dietary or allergy information, please email kentshillparkschool@impactfood.co.uk and pupilservices@kentshillpark.school
If you have any issues, please email all the details to office@kentshillpark.school and we will resolve them with the provider and get back to you as soon as we can.
Help with Uniform
https://www.kentshillpark.school/primary/primary-uniform-pe-kit/
https://www.kentshillpark.school/secondary/secondary-uniform-pe-kit/
For advice and guidance on cost of living support
https://helpforhouseholds.campaign.gov.uk/
https://www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/benefits/cost-living-support
Milton Keynes Holiday Activities and Food Programme
MK Council are pleased to announce their Activities and Food programmes.
Please refer to their website link www.milton-keynes.gov.uk/HAF for more information.
To book – use their online booking system here. More information can be found via the HAF webpage.
Summer holiday support from Children and Family Centres
Our Children and Family centres are open 52 weeks of the year from 8.30 am until 4.30 pm. Family Centres may even be open later than that!
The centres will continue to provide a vital range of valuable services over the school summer holidays – so please share this information with your school’s learning mentor or pastoral leads so they can signpost children, young people and families to us.
What’s on offer?
- A range of period products on offer for children and young people who need them throughout the summer. Young people, or their parents, will be able to collect the products from any of our 17 centres. (We’ll also leave some products outside the centres – so that children and young people can pick them up without accessing the centres if they’d rather not come in.)
- A large food poverty offer
- Support on a wide range of issues for young people and parents/carers
Please refer to the list of centres and their contact details below. You and your teams can contact any of them to find out more about the support available, or to signpost families before the summer break starts.
Milton Keynes Food Bank
Free energy support helpline
Did you know that Milton Keynes City Council is funding a free ‘Warmth and Wellbeing Helpline?’ It offers advice to people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis.
MK residents can call freephone 0800 107 0044 Monday to Friday from 9.00am – 5.00pm to get advice from the National Energy Foundation’s Better Housing Better Health team. The team will explain how to get better energy deals and how to apply for insulation and energy efficiency grants. Residents could save as much as £115 a year by implementing the advice.
Other support
The Sustainable Warmth Programme involves improvement works to homes, which can take several months and will help households ready for next winter. Many residents need urgent help now – the Energy Saving Trust offers practical tips on where people can turn for help paying energy bills.
NHS Healthy Start
MK Council are promoting the NHS Healthy Start initiative, which could be worth £8.50 each week for families on certain benefits and a low income to buy fruit, vegetables and milk.
People can apply at www.healthystart.nhs.uk/how-to-apply if you are pregnant or have at least one child under 4 years old.
We hope this is helpful.