Year 6 – Stop Loan Sharks – Coding Session
Supporting Education with coding sessions on laptops. During the session, videoing will be taking place but we will follow our “permissions” to ensure that children who do not have permission to take part in promotional material will be taken out of the images.
Stop Loan Sharks – the England Illegal Money Lending Team (IMLT) – works with primary and secondary schools to deliver financial education. Understanding where money comes from, budgeting, affordable credit and other aspects of finance at an early age is a vital step in preventing people being targeted by loan sharks as adults.
Increasing children’s understanding of handling money, avoiding debt, and managing their money will hopefully stop them getting into financial difficulties in the future. This helps to spread the understanding of financial education in the wider community with children taking these messages home to their parents.
The England IMLT worked with teachers to design a series of Young Money quality marked resources to be used in primary and secondary schools as part of a wider financial education programme. We believe that one way to stop loan sharks is by helping people to understand how to manage money from an early age.
