Managing money: Financial education in primary and secondary schools in Wales

Recommendations

Schools should:

• R1 Plan and deliver meaningful opportunities for pupils to develop and apply their financial skills across the curriculum
• R2 Monitor and evaluate the quality of learning and teaching for financial education
• R3 Provide staff with appropriate training to improve provision for financial education

Local authorities / Consortia should:

• R4 Facilitate effective arrangements for schools to share best practice and resources for financial education
• R5 Review their training programmes for numeracy to ensure that they enable teachers to develop a sound knowledge and understanding of financial education

The Welsh Government should:

• R6 Review and promote its guidance material for the effective delivery of financial education, to include a database of useful resources and organisations for schools
• R7 Support the development of bilingual digital financial education resources
• R8 Ensure that financial education is included in the development of the new area of learning and experience for health and wellbeing as well as mathematics and numeracy