The UK Financial Capability Strategy: Children & Young People Kirsty Bowman-Vaughan, Senior Policy Manager Pete Bailey, Research & Evaluation Manager
The UK Financial Capability Strategy: Children & Young
People
Kirsty Bowman-Vaughan, Senior Policy Manager Pete Bailey, Research & Evaluation Manager
Where we are now
PLANNING FOR & MANAGING LIFE EVENTS
has savings equal to three month’s salary
has a specific plan to achieve financial goals
Source: Financial Capability Survey 2015 (Base = 3,425 adults aged 18+)
MANAGING MONEY WELL DAY TO DAY
could pay an unexpected bill of £300
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With around 8 million people over-indebted
• Adult financial capability is developed throughout childhood and adolescence
• We need to know what works in the short, medium and long-term to ensure children and young people get the high quality financial education they need
• We know there are teachable moments, the messenger matters and just-in-time education works
• We don’t know the most effective intervention models and techniques that can be delivered cost-effectively at scale
• Existing interventions aren’t sufficiently meeting need: • 18-24s are one of the likeliest to be over-indebted and least likely to seek help
• There are provision gaps for interventions involving children, peers, parents, vulnerable children and young people, and learning by doing
• Schools need more support to deliver effective financial education • Teachers and schools need support in making informed decisions how financial capability can be best implemented
• A sustainable funding model needs to be in place to support financial education at scale
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The issues
Understand what works through: • finalising outcome frameworks for children and young people, parents and teachers • funding the IMPACT cohort which will enable funders and not-for-profit organisations to significantly
improve how interventions are evaluated • conduct pilot to test effectiveness of integrating financial capability into existing parenting programmes
(aimed at parents of 3-11 year olds)
Support the delivery of targeted provision: • carry out a financial capability Survey for 4-17 year olds to understand in detail financial capability needs • conduct systematic on-going mapping of financial education provision across the UK to enable the sector to
target resources effectively
Support schools to deliver effective financial education by: • funding the Children and Young People’s incubator fund to provide rigorous evidence and publicise to
schools on scalable cost-effective models that improve financial capability and attainment
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What the strategy will do
Evidence and Evaluation at the Money Advice Service
To increase the effectiveness of financial capability (FinCap) programmes by:
1) improving the quality and consistency of evaluation, and
2) sharing learning about what works (and what doesn’t)
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The common evaluation toolkit consists of two main elements…
What to measure
Standard financial capability outcome frameworks for
adults; children and young people; parents and
teachers
Measurement tools (survey questions) aligning to each indicator in the outcome
frameworks
How to measure
Step-by-step guidance on conducting outcome
evaluation
Practical tools
Adults
•Interventions that target adults aged 18 and above, with amended indicators for Older Adults and scope to develop further indicators for Young Adults as required
Children and Young People
•Interventions that target Children and Young people aged 3 - 17 with sets of age appropriate indicators for different age groups
Parents
•Interventions that seek to enhance Parents capacity to support and develop their children's financial capability
Teachers
•Interventions that seek to enhance Teachers’ skills, knowledge and understanding to drive the effectiveness of Financial Education
What to measure: four outcomes frameworks
What to measure: Outcome frameworks
• Used as a menu - organisations select the outcomes they are trying to influence
• Each detailed indicator has an age appropriate measurement tool (validated survey question) aligned to it that can be used to measure the baseline and distance travelled
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Dealing with
financial
difficulties
Preparing for
and managing
life events
Managing
money well
day-to-day
How to measure: Guidance and practical tools
• Step-by-step guidance to conducting an outcome evaluation
• Simple practical tools to help with:
• Evaluation planning
• Data collection and analysis
• Data reporting and visualisation
• Signposting to existing tools and resources
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IMPACT principles
• High-level principles outlining good evidence and
evaluation practice
• Developed from existing principles
• Signatories make a public commitment to
embedding
the principles, MAS helps support their
implementation
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MAS Fincap IMPACT forum
Funders
1:1 evaluation
support from MAS
Online forum Events
Evaluators Providers
Brokerage of capacity-building
relationships
Evaluation toolkit &
Outcomes Frameworks Supporting
our
IMPACT
Principles
signatories
Financial Capability evidence hub
Brings the evidence on what works together in one place
Translate
s it for
non-
researche
rs
Features
an easy to
understand
ratings
system
Quality assured by the Personal Finance Research Centre
Thanks for listening!
Kirsty Bowman-Vaughan, Senior Policy Manager
Peter Bailey, Research and Evaluation Manager
www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk
www.fincap.org.uk
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