Supporting Education

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.

Financial Education Packs

Primary Schools: We have developed a series of activities that can be used flexibly for 5-11 year olds. The activities are linked to core learning in the PFEG financial education planning framework. They can be taught in many areas of the curriculum such as mathematics, numeracy, literacy, drama and PSHE.

Secondary Schools: Our activities for financial education in secondary schools are based on real life money management scenarios. They have been designed to help teachers and students explore a range of topics including safe lending, borrowing money, budgeting, and managing wants and needs. They also focus on the dangers of loan sharks and the potential consequences of borrowing cash from an illegal lender.

Please complete the form to the right to request access to our education packs.