Household Support Fund

Dear Schools and Early Years Providers

Please find attached a parent/carer letter relating to the 2024 October Half Term Holiday arrangements for the Household Support Fund. Once again, we are asking you to support eligible children with £15 per child/per week to purchase supermarket vouchers/or equivalent for each holiday period. 

Thank you once again for your continued support in distributing food vouchers to children and their families during what we know is a busy time in schools and settings.

We appreciate that the situation regarding who qualifies for the funding is regularly changing and, as a result, there may be some discrepancies between how much funding the Council has provided to education providers, and the number of children you have supported. On the forms below we are asking you to confirm how many children you supported so we can settle any balances.

In cases where you are owed money by the Council, we will provide the extra funding to both schools and early years in December 2024. 

In cases where you owe money to the Council, that discrepancy will be subtracted in December 2024. 

Please note, there are two categories of children supported. 

1) Children who are eligible for free school meals, 2YOF, or EYPP.

2) Children who are not eligible for FSM/2YOF/EYPP but have been supported at the discretion of education providers (“discretionary support”). 

The forms below ask you to report these two groups separately—please do not double count when reporting.

We ask that you follow the appropriate link(s) below and report to us the information on the payments made. 

Schools (Year R and above) please follow the link below to report your expenditure – https://forms.office.com/e/nDj17Winyc

Early Years (below year R) please follow the link below to report your expenditure: - https://forms.office.com/e/STVUAkbyrS

N.B. Schools with Early Years provision: please complete both forms separately. Please only report support provided to children below year R on the Early Years form—do not duplicate reporting. Please do not report any Early Years expenditure on the Schools form, nor Schools expenditure on the Early Years form.

You do not need to send spreadsheets with detailed information on individual recipients – we do not need this information and there is a risk of breaching data regulations. 

Please complete this return by Friday 29 November 2024 - we will then make arrangements for any balancing payments to be made.  

Queries related to the data return should be directed to CSCHouseholdSupport@Oxfordshire.gov.uk

HSF grant agreement EY October Half Term 24 (DOC 32KB)

HSF grant agreement schools - October Half Term 2024 (DOC 32KB)

HSF Recording sheet Schools October 24 (EXL 82KB)

October Half Term Holidays 2024 Letter to Parents (DOC 82KB)