Developing Financial Awareness Accredited through Youth Achievement Awards

Youth Achievement Awards offer a peer supported approach to recognising and accrediting young people's achievements aged 14+. The Awards offer a quality youth work framework that can be applied to any learning experience and recognise 4 levels of responsibility taken by young people. The Awards are Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework credit rated and levelled. Peer assessment forms an integral element of the delivery of the Awards. The Financial Awareness Toolkit is a resource that supports the development of financial literacy programmes through youth

This seminar will present an overview of the Youth Achievement Awards and a study of the partnership between Moray Council's Youth Team and Lossiemouth High School to provide an exemplar of youth work approaches to recognising and accrediting wider achievement. This work was featured in Learning and Teaching Scotland's DVD case studies of Curriculum for Excellence Building the Curriculum 3, featuring youth work approaches to recognising wider achievement.

A question and answer session will close this seminar.

This seminar will be facilitated by the 3 partnership agencies involved in supporting and delivering the Youth Achievement Awards Financial Awareness programme in Moray. 

Steven Greig, Depute Chief Executive, Youth Scotland, the national agency for youth groups in Scotland is responsible for the strategic development of the Youth Achievement Awards in Scotland. 

Karen Delaney, Youth Team Leader, Community Learning and Development, Moray Council is responsible for youth work delivery and development of the Youth Achievement Awards in Moray Council. 

Donnie Carthew, Depute Headteacher, Lossiemouth High School is responsible for enabling the inclusion of the Youth Achievement Awards Financial Literacy programme in Lossiemouth High School.