What you need to know
All Regulars and Full Time Reserve Service (Full Commitment) are eligible for the following education fees and expenses if you are assigned overseas and have to pay for schooling for your child/children from the September following your child’s fourth birthday:
- school fees including normal tuition fees (including non-refundable registration and enrolment fees) and any other compulsory charges
- Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) support (including speech and language assessments and therapy) where it is included within school fees and where the MOD assessment of supportability overseas identifies that local SEND provision meets the need of the child and local Commands/Commanders have agreed to fund such provision
- field study trips /residential educational courses if required as part of a syllabus for a prescribed public examination
- language tuition fees for children who attend non-English speaking schools overseas, only when such tuition is considered essential and not exceeding 130 hours in total
- essential books and stationery as required by the school authorities and normally provided free of charge in England’s State schools
- technology as long as a device (laptop, tablet etc) does not become the property of the parent/child at any time during the posting
- transport can be refunded only when no Service provision can be made and the transport is confined to the cheapest method appropriate to the area and circumstances. Where use of a private car is authorised, the appropriate lower rate of motor mileage allowance may be claimed for 2 return journeys to and from school daily
If the school provides transport, the cost may be reimbursed up to the equivalent of motor mileage allowance.
It is important that you have read and understood JSP 342 Education of Service Children and Young People (page 19, part 1) before proceeding.
What you need to do
- refer to JSP 342 Education of Service Children and Young People (page 19, part 1)
- complete form DYCP 001 and submit to your Commanding Officer or Head of Establishment
Your Commanding Officer or Head of Establishment will check the details and forward the claim to the Children’s Education Advisory Service (CEAS). If the claim is approved, the form will be returned to you and you can submit claims as follows:
- for UIFSM claims by personnel with children in MOD schools and where there is no school lunch provision, DCS Form 001 should be submitted to RC-DCS-HQ-CEAS@mod.gov.uk for authorisation of payment
- personnel based in the USA are to submit claims to the Central Processing Centre in country for payment
- personnel in non-MOD schools and Rest of the World are to submit claims forms to allocated/dedicated admin support units for payment
If you have any questions you can email the Directorate Children and Young People on : RC-DCS-HQ-OES@mod.gov.uk
