Why financial education?

Did You Know?

Children start to form their habits and attitudes around finance by the age of seven.1

That’s why it’s important to provide every child with financial education. Enabling understanding and providing opportunities around money from an early age, will allow them to make the right choices independently in the future. There is more to money management than understanding the value of coins and notes or counting change (though these themselves are important skills). Learning how to keep track of spending or whether an item offers value for money will help ensure children know how to make financial decisions for themselves when they grow up.

The role of the SEND Educator

The teaching of life skills is a huge part of the role of a SEND Educator and creating opportunities to help children in your setting to develop their financial capability will be invaluable.

As an educator, you can equip children with skills, knowledge and ideas to help them open up new ways of understanding money now and later on in life and support them to become as financially capable as possible.

For an educator of children who have special educational needs and disabilities, this educational journey will look different for every child. In the context of understanding and managing money, your role will be to support them to build on and develop skills for life.