Municipality defines support for School Social Action for 2024/2025

In the proposal, the following support is maintained:

• support for school materials (€20.00/year/student) and study visits (€20.00/year/student) for 1st cycle students in ASE and NSE classes A, B and NSE;
• support (€24.00/year/student) for NSE 1st Cycle students in Support Technologies;
• support for pre-school children and primary and secondary school students, guaranteeing free meals (breakfast, lunch and snack) for children/students in the ASE and NSE A and B brackets;
• provision of school meals, "Há gosto - school meals in August", for the 2024/2025 school year and a 50% reduction in the amount to be paid for school meals for all children who are not included in the ASE A and B brackets, i.e. students with learning and inclusion support measures, enrolled in the public kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle and secondary school network;
• a 50% reduction in the amount to be paid for school meals for all children not included in the ASE A and B brackets, enrolled in the public kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycle networks, in the 2023/24 school year;
• support for school milk for pre-school children and students in the 1st cycle of basic education;
• support granted in the area of school transport (NSE students and those attending an educational establishment more than 3 km away), extending the age limit to 20 years old inclusive, for NSE students who have not completed compulsory schooling by the age of 18, given the difficulties inherent in their condition;
• support for wear and tear material (€25.00/year/child) granted to pre-school children in ASE and NSE classes A and B; CML transfers the money to the AEs who will manage it, defining the procedures to ensure that this support is made available to the beneficiary children;
• full reimbursement of the value of textbook support sheets for students in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd cycles of basic education;
• €200.00/year to be allocated per CAA for the purchase of general wear and tear materials;
• €250.00/year/student in AACs with additional measures for the purchase of specific materials for individual use, when other materials are not pedagogically suitable;
• support for students in the 10th year of schooling to purchase a calculating machine for use in national secondary school exams with a maximum value of €100 per student (according to the Ministry of Education's list of calculating machines that can be used in the National Final Exams for Physics and Chemistry A, Mathematics A, Mathematics B and Mathematics Applied to the Social Sciences);
• other support for school transport (adapted school transport; home/school transport; free municipal transport for CML programs: School Passport; Swimming and Living Science School);
• organization and implementation of the Full-Time School, through the development of Curricular Enrichment Activities (AEC), Family Support Activities (AAAF) and Family Support Component (CAF).