The informal learning project, in partnership with St Christopher's Fellowship, is funded by the Money and Pensions Service. It is one of three projects around the UK that will be testing and scaling up approaches to financial education for young people in vulnerable circumstances.
QSA is delighted to be leading one of a small number of projects across the UK funded by the Money and Pensions Service's (MaPS) new grant programme focussed on improving children and young people’s financial wellbeing.
Our new project, led by QSA's Made of Money team, is one of just three selected for funding under MaPS' theme of practitioner training and targeted provision for children and young people in vulnerable circumstances.
Partnership with St Christopher’s Fellowship
QSA will work in partnership with St Christopher’s Fellowship (who provide children’s homes, supported accommodation and fostering services), to deliver financial education, wellbeing training, resources, and guidance to practitioners working with children and young people in care settings. This will be achieved through an informal educational approach that supports and builds upon the trusted relationship between practitioners and the young people in their care.
The project will combine QSA’s expertise in financial education and practitioner training with St Christopher’s Fellowship’s deep knowledge and experience of working with young people. Together we will engage 145 practitioners through training and train the trainer programmes, and 20 children and young people through co-design of these programmes.
Using learning moments that occur within carers' roles
The aim of the programme is to make effective use of the financial education opportunities that arise within carers’ roles as they support young people at different life stages. By equipping care practitioners to replicate the positive aspects of financial education that occur within familial environments, the project aims to help children in care to achieve parity with other young people in this aspect of their development.
Learn more
More information about the wider suite of MaPS-funded projects that this project sits within can be found in a blog from MaPS staff here (external link).
More information about our new partner, St Christopher's Fellowship, can be found on their website here (external link).
