Select committee: Education Committee
Recommendation 1
Third Report - Delivering effective financial education
Published 22 May 2024
Paragraph 14
Addressed to Department for Education
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
Whilst there are some examples of exemplary practice, in the main financial education in primary schools in England is insufficient and should be expanded. Children use money at an increasingly young age and with greater independence, often making transactions that are immediate and, at times, irreversible. Whilst this should in theory be happening from secondary school age onwards, there is increasing evidence that children under eleven are being reached by online marketing and may be subject to financial pressures.
From: Education Committee, Third Report - Delivering effective financial education (HC 265), paragraph 14, 22 May 2024
Government response
The government responded to the whole report on 16 January 2025 (deadline 22 July 2024).
Summary written by Accountability Index from the government's response. It is not the government's own words.The government says it will "consider" the report's findings "carefully", states that it agrees on teacher supply and teacher support, and leaves curriculum decisions to the Curriculum and Assessment Review.
- On more financial content in the maths curriculum, the government "notes" the recommendation and says it "will consider further" the support available to schools "in the light of the CAR outcomes".
- Oak National Academy is "expected" to make additional lessons on financial education and applying maths available "from spring 2025".
- On financial education leads, the government says schools are "free to designate a teacher" and that it "currently has no plans" to produce guidance on appointing or supporting them.
- On the PISA financial literacy assessment, the government says it is not offered in the 2025 cycle, but the Department "will consider participation" in the 2029 cycle "after mid-2026".