Question: What is the National Voucher Scheme?

Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
section_headers: National voucher scheme
section_content: As schools open more widely, and their kitchens reopen, we expect schools to
make food parcels available for collection or delivery for any children that
are eligible for free school meals who are staying at home.
Arranging food parcels helps ensure that eligible children have access to a
healthy free meal, and can also help the school to stay in contact with those
families. We know that many schools have made excellent food parcel
arrangements throughout this period.
If your school catering service cannot provide meals or food parcels for
children who are at home, you can continue to offer vouchers to families of
eligible pupils.
Before ordering vouchers, check which pupils are eligible and would be
receiving benefits-related free school meals.
We are monitoring voucher orders at school level to broadly check if they are
ordering in line with our estimates of the number of eligible children,
recognising that for some schools this will be lower if they are providing
food parcels, or using a local arrangement. If a school’s orders are higher
than expected, we may speak to the school about why this has occurred and will
take forward any necessary action to rectify the position. A cross check will
also be done for those making a claim for free school meals funding via the
financial support available for
schools.
For any voucher queries, please email:

freeschoolmeals@edenred.com for schools
freeschoolmealsparentscarers@edenred.com for parents and carers


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Has additional information about the national meal voucher program.
While it's not known if the system being described here is related to the "National Voucher Scheme" there is a lot of information as well as emails given for voucher information that may hold more interest for the requester in order to their query satisfied.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
section_headers: National voucher scheme
How to order vouchers
section_content: Schools have received an email from Edenred with an activation code and a
step-by-step
guide
to using the online ordering portal.
Once you have activated your account on the Edenred portal, you can begin to
order vouchers.
When ordering vouchers, please do so in an efficient manner to cover multiple
weeks.
You can:

order a single voucher to cover a longer time frame, for example, £45 to support one eligible child over 3 weeks
order a single voucher to cover more than one eligible child within the same household, for example, £90 to support three eligible children over 2 weeks
set a weekly £15 rolling voucher

Once you have confirmed the voucher’s value, you can either:

send an eCode directly to the parent or carers of the pupils(s) eligible for free school meals - they will need to choose an eGift card from a range of supermarkets
select an eGift card on the parent or carer’s behalf, and print and post the eGift card to them
select an eGift card on the parent or carer’s behalf, print the eGift card and arrange for families to collect it


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Answer does give instructions on how to get a voucher and what kind of voucher you can get but does not specify if this process is part of the "National Voucher Scheme."
Describes the National Voucher Scheme and what it pays for.

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Answer passage (source: UK):
page_title: Guidance Providing free school meals during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak
section_headers: National voucher scheme
Supermarkets available
section_content: Through Edenred, you can access eGift cards for:

Aldi
Asda
M&S
McColl’s
Morrisons
Sainsbury’s
Tesco
Waitrose


Reviewer feedback on this answer:
Answer does not mention the "National Voucher Scheme" or vouchers in general and is devoted to eGift cards.
Doesn't mention the National Voucher Program or provide additional information about it.

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