This week's information guide is all about money and helping children manage their relationship with it. Children in school now have a very disconnected view of money because most transactions are now done using cards. Children never see 'real' money changing hands and don't understand that it is a finite resource.

As Christmas gets closer, consider taking your young people shopping using cash to help them to see that money is a limited resource and great care should be taken before using it all up!

This guide also covers the difference between a 'want' and a 'need' - again, something that we often see being confused in the minds of young people.