Financial planner writes to government to 'fight financial education battle'

Moran (pictured) told Professional Adviser she hopes to develop a 6-12-week course on basic personal finance. If created, Moran intends to roll the course out to local schools before gradually implementing it in all schools across the country. The financial planner sent a letter to the secretary of state for education Gavin Williamson, earlier this week and sent the same letter to her local MP for St. Albans Daisy Cooper. In the letter, she said that although financial education has been compulsory since 2014, she does not think enough is being done. She said: "The teachers don't have...