Scottish Families Urged to Apply for £330 One-Off Primary School Grant

Parents can apply for £330 payment to help with school costs

Applications for Best Start Grant School Age Payment are now open.

Scottish families urged to apply for £330 one-off primary school grant

SCOTTISH families have been urged to apply for a £330 one-off grant to help ease some of the financial pressures that come with a child starting…

School Age Payment applications open

Families across Scotland can apply for over £330 to help with the costs of preparing for primary school, as applications for Best Start Grant School Age Payment open TODAY – 1 June 2026. The payment is available to eligible families with children born between 1 March 2021 and 28 February 2022. It is designed to ease the money pressures that come with a child starting primary one. Whether a family can receive the payment depends on the child’s ag…

Families Can Now Apply for £330 School Start Payment

Families across Scotland can now apply for a payment of more than £330 to help cover the costs of children starting primary school, with applications opening from 1 June 2026. The Best Start Grant School Age Payment is available to eligible families with children born between 1 March 2021 and 28 February 2022 and is designed to help with the expenses that often come with beginning primary one. The payment is unique to Scotland and can be used ho…

School Age Payment – applications open today for children starting primary school in August

Scottish families can apply for a grant of more than £330 to help with the costs of getting a child ready for primary school.  The money is available to families with children born between 1 March 2021 and 28 February 2022. It can be spent on anything required from clothes to school trips.  The payment […] The post School Age Payment – applications open today for children starting primary school in August appeared first on The Edinburgh Reporter.