The Quality Mark is designed to give educators confidence that the financial education materials they are using are of the highest educational value, contain accurate and up-to-date information and are engaging and relevant for young people.
The Quality Mark is designed to give educators confidence that the financial education materials they are using are of the highest educational value, contain accurate and up-to-date information and are engaging and relevant for young people.
Whether you are a teacher, parent, carer, volunteer or anyone else working to improve young people’s understanding of money, you need to know the resources you are using are up to the job.
As the UK’s only widely-recognised accreditation system for financial education resources, the Quality Mark plays a crucial role in supporting high quality teaching and learning about money across the UK.
The Quality Mark is only awarded to financial education resources that meet seven essential criteria. To be awarded the Quality Mark, a resource must:
A dedicated Theory of Change and evaluation plan: As part of the Quality Mark service you will be offered the services of an evaluation consultant to support you to produce a Theory of Change and evaluation plan for your resource. Should you feel that you can produce these tools independently with some light touch support please download our Self-Help Guide on Quality Mark evaluation.
For further information about the seven essential criteria read our Guidance for Resource Producers booklet.
*If you’re a smaller resource provider with original and innovative content, you may be considered for our bursary award please contact us to discuss.
Fee: from £1500
Charitable fee: from £750
There are also a limited number of bursaries available (see below for more details)*
All resources listed on our resource hub have achieved the Financial Education Quality Mark.
The Financial Capability Strategy for the UK – launched in October 2015 – set out the ambition for all children and young people to receive financial education that works. This means providing learning materials that are accurate, up-to-date, of the highest educational value, and engaging and relevant for young people.
Working with the Money Advice Service, we award the mark to evidence-based resources that have been tried and tested successfully and are proven to drive results.
Resources are assessed by a panel of independent experts, two educational experts and one financial expert.
The Quality Mark is funded by the Money Advice & Pensions Service. This funding relationship follows 12 years of valued support from Prudential UK, who funded the service from it’s establishment in 2004 to summer 2016.