As
part of the APPG for financial education I worked to produce a Report on the
need for Financial Education in all Schools , to help young people budget ,
understand interest rates and the cost of borrowing , protect themselves from
stressful and unmanageable debt , and generally to manage their money
better.
I
felt strongly there was a need for this having seen the devastating
consequences of the pressures of debt on people in my previous job as a
community lawyer .
Our
Report was passed to the then Secretary of State for Education , Michael Gove ,
who in turn passed it to the Prime Minister , with whom we met as an APPG to
discuss this . As a result financial education became part of the school
curriculum last autumn .
I
believe this will over time help millions of young people to manage their
finances better , and consider it a privilege to have been involved in this
work .
