It appears a number of fake emails are circulating with a message similar to the below:
If your child’s school is closed and your child is entitled to free school meals; then to send your bank details to the school and they will help you with funding while schools are closed.
This is a new take on a very old but simple and very effective fraudulent scam. School will never ask you for your bank details via an email – please do not fall for this scam!
Hopefully you pass this to police, hopefully they get time to look into it, and hopefully they’re caught? Scandalous
We were passed this from the Local Authority, to send out to all our parents. Yes, I hope they get caught too.