Financial education

Sixth-formers will be offered practical maths courses that teach skills including working out interest, currency rates and profit margins from this week. It is however up to individual schools and colleges to decide to provide the course.

The Government has announced it will fund a pilot scheme to set up savings clubs in primary schools in a bid to help prevent children racking up debts later on in life.

Children as young as four are being encouraged to join savings clubs as part of a bid to prevent them relying on payday loans or racking up heavy debts later in life.

Martin Lewis, our boss and founder and editor of MoneySavingExpert.com, has tonight been awarded an OBE for services to consumer rights and charitable services in the Queen's birthday honours list. This is a message from me on behalf of the staff at MSE following the news (he has no idea we’re even writing this).

MoneySavingExpert.com's Martin Lewis is joining financial education charity Pfeg to launch a new campaign to get schoolchildren talking about money.

MPs have called on the Government and other organisations to do more to make sure vulnerable young people outside mainstream schooling receive financial education.

Financial education will form a part of the compulsory national curriculum in England from September 2014, it's been confirmed.

Prime Minister David Cameron has today confirmed financial education will form part of the final draft of the national curriculum in England, to be implemented from September 2014.