Schools: Financial Education Debate
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Baroness Chapman of Darlington
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Schools: Financial Education
Baroness Chapman of Darlington Excerpts(1 year, 10 months ago)
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Baroness Chapman of Darlington (Lab)
My Lords, young people themselves say that they want more financial education: 81% say that they worry about money, 67% say that they have become more anxious about money as a result of Covid and 72% say that they want to learn more about money at school. What more can the Government do? At the moment, it seems that a commitment not to change the national curriculum is actually denying young people the education that they say they want.
Baroness Barran (Con)
Making sure that we deliver the mathematics and citizenship curricula in a way that equips children and young people with the skills they need is a clear priority, particularly given the challenges that our schools and young people have faced over the last two years of Covid.