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Interviewer: What will you do financially?
Alfie: What’s financially?
Good question. The video clip in the Sun’s story says it all.
The Sun’s columnist contributes predictable cliches: “What a damning indictment on Britain’s hugely expensive sex education programme in schools.”
But why doesn’t anyone have a go about the standards of financial education. At least Alfie’s heard of [...]

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Children & Young People Now magazine picked up on my financial abuse post from last month. It’s run an interview with Sarah Payne, chief executive of the YWCA, focusing on the manipulation and bullying that many young women experience from their partners.
Payne is, if you’ll pardon the expression, right on the money. Learning about money “is [...]

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Around 2.2 million Brits claim to have ended their last relationship because of money issues.
Yes, it’s Valentine’s day. So the bank Abbey points out some unromantic but important realities. The figures come from a survey by the online bank cahoot.
But they reveal only what most people know if they think about it for a second [...]

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