Helping young people with learning disabilities to ...

Helping

young people

with learning

disabilities to

understand

money

A resource for support workers and youth workers

Adapted from On Your Own 2 Feet by Fairbridge

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About the Money Advice Service

Copyright

The Money Advice Service is here to help everyone

understand and manage their money better. We provide

clear, unbiased money advice to help people make informed

choices. We believe that the right money advice can make a

difference to people¡¯s lives. And when people take steps to

manage their money better, people can live better too.

The Money Advice Service holds the copyright to these

materials. Most of the activities have been adapted from ¡°On

Your Own 2 Feet¡±, a toolkit developed by the young people¡¯s

charity Fairbridge.

We are independent. We were set up by government and are

funded by a levy on the financial services industry.

Unbiased money advice to help everyone manage their

money better.

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0300 500 5000

Calls should cost no more than 01 or 02 UK-wide calls, and

are included in inclusive mobile and landline minutes. To

help us maintain and improve our service, we may record or

monitor calls.

Fairbridge hold the copyright for those materials.

Organisations or individuals making use of the contents for

not-for-profit educational purposes are permitted to take

photocopies. Any other uses are not permitted.

Thank you!

We would like to thank all the individuals and organisations

that supported us in developing this resource. Our particular

thanks go to Shirley Potter from the Association for Real

Change (ARC) who adapted the exercises and drew the

illustrations. We would also like to thank: Mencap Watford;

Action for Children, Stroud and Craegmoor Health, Caerphilly

for their help in testing the exercises.

The Money Advice Service paid for this work as part of the

National Strategy for Financial Capability.

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Introduction

Training tips and hints.................. 7

What is it all about? .........................1

Additional tips and hints essential when

you are working with young people with a

learning disability.

Facts about people and young people

with a learning disability and money.

¡ö¡ö Make it fun

¡ö¡ö Support

What are we doing and why?....... 2

How this toolkit was developed.

¡ö¡ö Keep things clear

¡ö¡ö Use plain English

Important things to remember... 4

¡ö¡ö Use images symbols and pictures

The essentials that you MUST

consider when using this toolkit and

delivering the sessions. Including:

¡ö¡ö Jargon busters

¡ö¡ö Planning is essential

¡ö¡ö Regular breaks

¡ö¡ö Focusing on individuality

¡ö¡ö Backup with accessible

references

¡ö¡ö Providing support, or a supporter

¡ö¡ö Keeping up to date

¡ö¡ö Regular reviews

¡ö¡ö Making it real and relevant

¡ö¡ö Recap frequently

¡ö¡ö Clear formatting

¡ö¡ö Making it interesting

¡ö¡ö Make it ¡®real¡¯

¡ö¡ö Things to watch out for

How to be a good supporter......... 9

¡ö¡ö Partnership working

Clear guidance about what makes a good

supporter and how to be one.

¡ö¡ö This is not rocket science

¡ö¡ö Be creative

¡ö¡ö Seize the moment

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Getting started............................... 10

Activities

A quiz ¡°How are you with money?¡±.

Complete with the young people to help

you and them gauge where they are

in their understanding and handling of

money.

An introduction to using the

activities................................................

¡ö¡ö How are you with money?

¡ö¡ö How did they do?

Includes guidance to work out how well

they did in the quiz.

Equipment needed.............................

A list of the equipment and preparation

required for each activity.

Thinking about attitudes to

money and values

Getting going and energisers.... 16

Activity 1 ..............................................

Some easy-to-use exercises that you can

use as ice breakers or energisers:

What I want

An activity to help young people

recognise that many things that make

them happy, cost money.

¡ö¡ö My name is ¡­¡­¡­. And I like

spending money on ¡­¡­¡­

It introduces the idea of saving for

expensive things.

Activity 2...............................................

Attitudes to money

This activity helps young people to learn

how they are with money and encourages

them to think about handling money in the

future.

Activity 3...............................................

What would you do?

This helps raise awareness of money

issues. Young people learn that money

issues are often complicated but they also

discover the safest and right things to do

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regarding money problems. They find out

that it is okay to ask for help and some of

the places where you can get help.

Learning about essential or

non-essential spending and

developing budgeting skills

Activity 4...............................................

Activity 7............................................

Agree or disagree

This activity helps young people to think

about how they feel about money, to

understand that we all have different

values where money is concerned. It will

also help to increase their understanding

of money issues while dispelling some

common myths about money.

Things we need - things we don¡¯t need

Young people will think about what sort

of things they would need and like in their

own room, and explore the costs of these.

It gives them the opportunity to know how

it feels to choose their own things, while

understanding it is not always possible to

have everything you want.

Everyday money ¨C where does it

come from and where do we use

it?

Activity 8............................................

Activity 5...............................................

Where does my money come from?

This activity helps the young people to

understand that money doesn¡¯t just ¡®grow

on trees¡¯; it helps them to explore where

their money comes from and understand

what their money pays for.

Things we need and things we do not need

Young people will learn about prioritising

between essential and non-essential

spending. It helps them to understand the

difference between wanting and needing

something. It explains that there are some

things we need to keep us safe, warm,

alive ¨C and some things that make our

lives more fun and enjoyable.

Activity 9...............................................

Activity 6...............................................

Treasure hunt

This activity supports the young people

to find out information for themselves ¨C

to learn more about where they live, find

out small pieces of financial information

and experience visiting a bank or building

society.

Where does your money go?

This activity helps the young people

understand about budgeting, why it is

important and how it works.

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