
‘Your Money and Your Life’ is a resource for delivering financial capability in secondary schools. It is a completely ‘on-line’ or ‘web-based’ resource – all constituent elements can be accessed through the website. It aims to provide teaching materials for a major proportion of the DCSF criteria in Economic Well Being and thus financial capability. Topics covered include the diversity of financial services and products and how to make sense of them, the setting of goals for life and the attitudes to money that will help students achieve them, how to choose a bank account, savings and investments, types of loans and credit and the dangers thereof, manageable and unmanageable debt, types of financial fraud and scams including identity theft, the risk elements of stock market investment and gambling and the impact personal spending can make on ethical and global aspects of finance. |