The Lord Bishop of St Albans – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

The below Parliamentary question was asked by The Lord Bishop of St Albans on 2014-06-05.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government how they intend to ensure that financial education is taught, to a high standard, in non-state-maintained secondary schools.

Lord Nash

Independent Schools in England do not have to follow the national curriculum, though they do have to have a curriculum which gives pupils experience in linguistic, mathematical, scientific, technological, human and social, physical and aesthetic and creative education.

We will shortly be consulting on strengthening the standards which independent schools must meet, but there are no plans to introduce a requirement on financial education.