A new educational route to be taken learning about life skills

Rejected 12 signatures

What the petition asks

Start teaching people in secondary school and above about life skills such as tax, insurance, going self employed, mortgages, loans, rent, cost of living, credit scores

Because young people don’t have a clue and it’s always Google or asking parents how to do it because they don’t get taught it in school, and when people come into schools to talk about it, it’s not realistic at all, and then young people are faced with unrealistic expectations and it’s all meant to be basic knowledge

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: Introduce a new core subject of Personal Finances for Years 9 to 11

You may also be interested to know that as part of the national curriculum content on citizenship schools are required to teach students about income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent.

You can read the citizenship programmes of study here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study-for-key-stages-3-and-4

Timeline

19 Jan 2023	Petition opened for signatures
23 Jan 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 12

Status Rejected

Rejected 23 Jan 2023

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