Resources
Financial Wellbeing: Guidance and Toolkit for Children & Young People Services
Our partner at Money & Pension services (MaPS) have developed a financial wellbeing Guidance and Toolkit for Children and Young People’s Services and you can access them here.
This guidance supports professionals working with children and young people, with the overarching aim of improving their financial wellbeing through good quality financial education. This includes a toolkit for practitioners across the UK, with tips on good practice and signposting to resources and services that can support them to talk to children and young people about money, deliver informal financial education and support access to money guidance.
The four guides aim to help local authorities and other children’s services staff, working with children and young people in vulnerable circumstances, embed opportunities for learning about money into the support they provide. Professionals who work with vulnerable children and young people on a day-to-day basis are well-placed to help them develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to make the most of their money now and into adulthood.
The guides and toolkit have been informed by consultation with leaders of children and young people’s services, practitioners who work with children and young people in vulnerable circumstances and organisations that represent the voices of children and young people.
To feedback on the guides and toolkit, share how they have been used in your work, or find out about other financial education work please contact Sarah at Sarah.Horscroft@maps.org.uk or our children and young people’s policy team on cyp@maps.org.uk.
Faith & Social Prescribing
NASP have recently published a new blog exploring how faiths groups are involved in social prescribing, and hearing from organisations working with diverse communities across many faiths.
A webinar was also held in December exploring churches and social prescribing. You can re-watch the recording here.
Evidence for Social Prescribing
Are you interested in evidence and research that could help further inform your Social Prescribing work?
NASP has recently released four new evidence reviews, and accompanying briefings on:
· Social prescribing and the natural environment
· Social prescribing and arts, culture and heritage
· Social prescribing and physical activity
· Social prescribing and financial, social welfare and legal advice
You can view all the latest publications in the evidence library here.
Social Prescribing in the news
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