Submitted on Thursday 19th January 2023
Rejected on Monday 23rd January 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
A new educational route to be taken learning about life skills
Start teaching people in secondary school and above about life skills such as tax, insurance, going self employed, mortgages, loans, rent, cost of living, credit scores
Because young people don’t have a clue and it’s always Google or asking parents how to do it because they don’t get taught it in school, and when people come into schools to talk about it, it’s not realistic at all, and then young people are faced with unrealistic expectations and it’s all meant to be basic knowledge
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You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/631393
You may also be interested to know that as part of the national curriculum content on citizenship schools are required to teach students about income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.
You can read the citizenship programmes of study here: www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study-for-key-stages-3-and-4
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