Schools: Financial Literacy Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Financial Literacy

Lord Davies of Brixton Excerpts
Thursday 20th April 2023

(1 year, 7 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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My noble friend makes a very important point. Risks relating to gambling are part of the RSHE curriculum and there are two main aspects of this. One is supporting pupils to manage risk and make informed decisions in relation to their mental well-being and their behaviour online. The second area relates to internet safety and harms and addresses exactly my noble friend’s point: pupils are taught about the risks relating to online gambling, including how advertising and information is targeted at them, the risks of accumulating debt and how to be a discerning consumer of information online.

Lord Davies of Brixton Portrait Lord Davies of Brixton (Lab)
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My Lords, I am glad that the Minister stressed the importance of mathematics in this context. Will she take the opportunity to inform the Prime Minister that it is facile to suggest improving maths in our schoolchildren without paying mathematics teachers enough money to encourage them to join and stay in the teaching workforce?

Baroness Barran Portrait Baroness Barran (Con)
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I have to say that I do not really have any intention of saying to the Prime Minister that his plans are facile. More importantly, I point the noble Lord to the pickup in recruitment of maths teachers following our interventions over the last three years.