{"id":72500,"date":"2025-12-03T12:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T12:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/?page_id=72500"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:35:06","slug":"prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/send-local-offer\/preparing-for-adult-life-ages-14-25-years\/health-and-wellbeing\/the-transition-to-adult-services\/prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prescription charges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The current prescription charge in England is \u00a39.90 for each item, but you may be entitled to free prescriptions. You can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhs.uk\/nhs-services\/prescriptions\/check-if-you-can-get-free-prescriptions\/\" rel=\"noopener\">check if you can get free prescriptions<\/a>&nbsp;on the NHS website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Care experienced young people<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you are a care leaver, aged 18-25 years, you may be entitled to a free prepaid prescription certificate. Please speak to your Care Leavers Services or PA who will be able to give you more information and confirm if you are eligible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information for care leavers can be found on your relevant council\u2019s website:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standupspeakup.org.uk\/info-for-care-leavers\/localoffer\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Devon\u2019s Local Offer to Care Leavers<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.torbay.gov.uk\/children-and-families\/care-experienced-local-offer\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Torbay Care Experienced Local Offer<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.gov.uk\/support-available-plymouth-care-leavers\" rel=\"noopener\">Support available for Plymouth care leavers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prescription charges The current prescription charge in England is \u00a39.90 for each item, but you may be entitled to free prescriptions. You can&nbsp;check if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":981,"featured_media":0,"parent":231,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-72500","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 10:05:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73001,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/72500\/revisions\/73001"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devon.gov.uk\/children-families-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}