Financial Education

I have just learned that a casualty of the so called wash up process in the last days of the now dissolved Parliament was the provision to provide financial education to children. One would find it difficult to identify a more pressing educational need in a country, the public finances of which are at their most indebted in peacetime history and whose population has the greatest level of personal debt of any in Europe.

That this important element of practical education fell victim of inter-party horse trading is a cause for dismay. A petition has been organised for presentation to the incoming Prime Minister.

It can be found at www.financialeducationpetition.com. I have signed it. Maybe you feel it is worth signing too. Anything that helps the rising generation manage its money and challenge the misinformation which daily pours out of the financial services industry must be good for raising the integrity of the financial system at every level. Knowledge is power.