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Last week the Home Office announced a strategy to end violence against women and girls. Preventing violence in relationships will be included in personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education.  The idea is to address attitudes which condone and perpetuate violence against women before they become entrenched in young people.
There are also plans for a [...]

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You know those times when you are chatting to teenagers about long-term, financial lifestyle planning? Otherwise known as pensions. And you realise there is a desperate shortage of interactive websites that help young people to achieve their future goals and aspirations by encouraging them to imagine what their lives will be like in 40 or [...]

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What can young people do with a tenner? A lot. The Make Your Mark campaign reports on its challenge to 16,000 young people to make as much profit and social impact as they could.
A group from Cullompton Community College sold recipe books and cleared nearly £500 profit from a £20 start. Birkdale High School student [...]

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A young person tells you that they are in a whole heap of debt. They don’t know what to do. What would be your response?

The quick answer is to stay calm and get help. People get in debt, and they can get out of it. Slowly and sometimes with difficulty. Debt is a very hard [...]

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Most under-25s are not sinking under an unbearable burden of debt. Sorry if saying that goes against the trend. It just doesn’t make a lot of sense to overstate a problem.
“Half of 18-34 year olds say they have debts of up to £10,000″. That’s a typical form of words used by those trying to communicate [...]

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The BBC asked a panel of money experts to devise a quiz on financial knowledge. What did they come up with?
A dog’s breakfast of drivel, exposing what is wrong with the way experts think about financial knowledge.
According to this quiz, one of the main things people need to know is the details of particular wealth [...]

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There’s some lively online stuff on money choices from BBC Radio 1 and 1 Xtra.
In a series of short videos, Scott Mills goofs around wandering into situations and asking viewers to make the right decisions in a “test of financial intelligence”.
Here, Greg James and 1Xtra’s Gemma have a week of money management tasks. They’re given challenges—to [...]

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Last year, young women in the Guides said handling money is a skill every modern girl should have.
This year, Girlguiding UK responded with a four-page advice leaflet. Tips include shopping around, avoiding debt and budgeting. Download Guiding’s guide to managing money.

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Dilemmas can be dull if people settle on a fixed position early. It is not a dilemma if there is no tension, if the right action seems obvious and unarguable. If that happens, tweak the details until attitudes change.

What if Lucky Luke won a million pounds? What if he knew that a close friend who [...]

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A moral dilemma about money appears every week in Martin Lewis’s money-saving expert newsletter. Some are forced or seem a bit naff. But all have the potential to trigger useful discussions, depending on the group of young people.
Here’s a couple of recent ones:

Should Lucky Luke give back his hardship grant?
Lucky Luke is a student and struggling [...]

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