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Scottish school introduces new cashless catering scheme
13 Jan 2011

A secondary school in Scotland has launched a new cashless catering scheme, it has been revealed.

Students at Moffat Academy will now be able to use their National Entitlement Card (NEC) to pay for school meals, while parents will be able to top up their child's account online.

The electronic purse on the NEC card is run by e-money network provider sQuid, which recently teamed up with Dumfries and Galloway Council to incorporate its technology into the programme.

Keith Percival, modernising government programme manager at Dumfries and Galloway Council, said: "Enabling parents to top up their child's cashless catering account online through a sQuid account is another great application of the NEC and we hope to see this service roll out to other schools throughout this coming year."

It follows the recent announcement that sQuid has launched a similar cashless catering system in the staff restaurant of price comparison website moneysupermarket.com.