Resources

The Money for Life Programme has funded a broad range of focus groups examining the financial capability needs of a spectrum of learners with very different profiles at a local and national level. These include students on access courses or in work-based learning, or people with specific learning profiles such as ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages), students or young mums. By bringing together colleges, community organisations and sector experts to work together we have facilitated the sharing of best practice and have trialled diverse approaches to engaging learners with financial capability.

The work of these groups is captured in the Money for Life Financial Capability for Adult Learners report.

The focus groups have developed a range of financial capability tools and resources that will support tutors, practitioners and support workers to deliver tailored financial capability learning – click on the links below for access to these and for further information.

• Developing an interactive financial capability game

• ESOL learners and financial capability

• Financial capability for learners at risk of becoming NEET

• Financial capability support for migrant workers

• Financial capability for work-based learning apprentices

• Financial capability for access learners

• Delivering financial capability to learners with learning difficulties and/or disabilities

• Learning money management through outreach centres

• Making money management part of vocational learning

• Money for Life in Essential Skills education

• Money management for work-based learners

• Money management for young parents

• Money management for young offenders

• Providing financial capability coaching skills through community networks

• Skill Build apprentices and financial capability

• Volunteering as a money mentor

Through this work, the Money for Life Programme has raised awareness of the importance of good money management to the practitioners and the learners it has reached.

Our objective for the future is to ensure that the resources and approaches are shared more widely across the sector. Our overall aim is to embed financial capability into the curricula of Further Education, Adult and Community Learning organisations across the UK, to the benefit of learners for many years to come.

In the 2011-12 academic year, Money for Life will

• Continue to work collaboratively with sector partners to embed the resources and approaches developed by the focus groups
• Increase the scope of the programme – reaching more colleges and more learners
• Train a network of accredited assessors in all four nations of the UK who will deliver the Teach Me and Teach Others training free-of-charge to practitioners
• Launch the Money for Life Challenge – an opportunity for learners to put their financial capability skills into practice in their local communities