As school students return to school, the Personal Finance Society has restarted its ‘My Personal Finance Skills’ programme which saw 18,000 students learn money skills over the past academic year.

The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment, the professional body which runs the Certified Financial Planner designation, has praised 300 school and college sixth form students for taking and passing its exams this year despite pandemic disruption.

After countless times saying to my friend, “You should worry less about what happens if you get hit by a bus and die, and more if you get hit by a bus and live, do you have Powers of Attorney?” I decided that young people should probably be a bit more clued up about personal finances matters so it’s now become a bit of a personal mission to do something.

Nearly a third of schoolchildren are concerned about saving enough for retirement, according to a new survey of young people.