Basic Skills: Curriculum

Department for Education written question – answered at on 21 July 2015.

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Photo of Frank Field Frank Field Chair, Work and Pensions Committee, Chair, Work and Pensions Committee

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to ensure that parenting and life skills are reflected in the national curriculum from primary school to GCSE level.

Photo of Edward Timpson Edward Timpson Minister of State (Education)

Schools can choose to teach parenting skills in their PSHE lessons. The non-statutory programme of study for PSHE education enables schools to teach young people about the roles and responsibilities of parents and the value of family relationships including the impact of separation, divorce and bereavement.

The national curriculum also makes financial literacy statutory for the first time, as part of the curriculum for citizenship education for 11 to 16 year olds. Pupils will be taught the functions and uses of money, the importance of personal budgeting, money management and the need to understand financial risk.

At primary, schools are required to teach about healthy eating, where food comes from and to prepare and cook a range of dishes. At secondary, for the first time, cooking is compulsory at key stage 3: teachers will cover nutrition, diet and where food comes from. Children will also learn how to feed themselves and others affordably and well, and learn where food comes from.

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