Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024
Inquiry: Financial EducationFound: must be reviewed, and existing content reduced in some areas to allow for increasing content in
Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024
Inquiry: Financial EducationFound: FE0085 - Financial Education Department for Education Written Evidence
Mentions:
1: Elliot Colburn (Con - Carshalton and Wallington) 28, and to make the positive case for an inclusive, age-appropriate RSE curriculum. - Speech Link
2: Adam Holloway (Con - Gravesham) There are impassioned calls for the Government to remove LGBT content from the primary school curriculum - Speech Link
3: Lloyd Russell-Moyle (LAB - Brighton, Kemptown) , which is for nought to three-year-olds, and is about how anyone can be a princess if they want and - Speech Link
4: Catherine McKinnell (Lab - Newcastle upon Tyne North) , although schools were able to delay that for a year because of the pandemic. - Speech Link
Asked by: Emma Hardy (Labour - Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle)
Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of including personal financial education as a subject in the National Curriculum.
Answered by Robert Halfon
Financial education already forms a compulsory part of the National Curriculum for mathematics at Key Stages 1 to 4 and citizenship at Key Stages 3 and 4, which together cover important financial topics including personal budgeting, saving for the future, managing credit and debt, and calculating interest. The National Curriculum is compulsory for maintained schools. Academies must teach a broad and balanced curriculum, including mathematics.
My right hon. Friend, the Prime Minister recently announced more funding for secondary mathematics, and that mathematics will be studied by all 16 to 18 year olds as part of the new Advanced British Standard qualification.
As with all aspects of the curriculum, schools have flexibility over how they deliver financial education, so they can develop an integrated approach that is sensitive to the needs and background of their pupils.
There is a wide range of support for financial education. The Money and Pensions Service has published guidance, setting out how schools can improve the financial education they deliver, and signposting to services and resources that can help. The guidance is available at: https://maps.org.uk/en/publications/research/2021/financial-education-guidance-for-primary-and-secondary-schools-in-england.
Talk Money Week, which is running from 6 to 10 November, is focused on this year’s campaign ‘Do One Thing’ to help improve financial wellbeing. The Talk Money Week 2023 Toolkit for Schools includes a dedicated pack of information and resources to help schools promote the financial wellbeing of their pupils and students, during Talk Money Week and beyond. The toolkit is available at: https://maps.org.uk/en/our-work/talk-money-week#Download-the-Toolkit-for-Schools.
The Department’s national network of 40 Maths Hubs also supports schools to improve their mathematics teaching, including financial content in the mathematics curriculum, based on best practice from East Asia.
The Oak National Academy, which became an independent Arm’s Length Body in September 2022, will provide adaptable, optional and free support for schools to reduce teacher workload and enable schools to provide a high quality curriculum. New Oak curriculum materials, including for mathematics, will start to be available from autumn 2023, with full curriculum packages available by summer 2024. Oak’s next phase of procurement of curriculum resources is expected to launch in late 2023 and will include citizenship.
Mentions:
1: Thomson, Michelle (SNP - Falkirk East) People will be crying out for real, evident change but with a nuanced approach against a 10-year delivery - Speech Link
2: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) That will include curriculum content, the role of knowledge, transitions between primary and secondary - Speech Link
3: Callaghan, Stephanie (SNP - Uddingston and Bellshill) I want to ask about curriculum content. - Speech Link
4: Gilruth, Jenny (SNP - Mid Fife and Glenrothes) The way in which we deliver CFE is such that we do not prescribe curriculum content, but some people - Speech Link
Government Response Feb. 19 2024
Committee: Education for 11–16 Year Olds CommitteeFound: Government response to Requires improvement: urgent change for 11–16 education Government Response
Feb. 19 2024
Source Page: Education for 11 to 16 year olds committee: government responseFound: Education for 11 to 16 year olds committee: government response
Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024
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Correspondence Mar. 25 2024
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Mentions:
1: Baroness Kidron (XB - Life peer) content filters switched off and so on. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Morgan of Cotes (Con - Life peer) Education, which is a fantastic role, our curriculum has slipped behind somewhat in being relevant for - Speech Link
3: Baroness Garden of Frognal (LD - Life peer) AI was supposed to help teachers with lesson planning and other materials that would reduce their workload - Speech Link
4: Baroness Barran (Con - Life peer) philosophical issues about how we think a classroom will look in five, 10 or 15 years.My noble friend - Speech Link