This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition To teach students about life skills within the wider world at schools.
To include a curriculum that involves teaches real life skills such as teaching them about finances within houses, bills, etc; introduce them to politics that involves them; real world issues to student.
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To help the next generation be actively involved with understanding the challenges of adulthood and preparing them for work life. Doing this will ensure the younger generation will want to be more political involved as they have a say and understanding in what their world will be in the future.
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The national curriculum programme of study for citizenship already includes content on:
- parliamentary democracy and the key elements of the constitution of the United Kingdom
- the legal system in the UK
- the different ways in which a citizen can contribute to the improvement of their community
- income and expenditure, credit and debt, insurance, savings and pensions, financial products and services, and how public money is raised and spent
You can read the full programme of study here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study/national-curriculum-in-england-citizenship-programmes-of-study-for-key-stages-3-and-4
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