Consumer education forms an important part of the Citizenship curriculum at KS 3 and particularly at KS4 (Unit 9 Consumer Rights and Responsibilities).

Trading Standards are the experts in consumer issues, and they can help your school develop a challenging and exciting programme.

Talking Shop

Through Trading Standards, all Nottingham secondary schools can use the new, interactive website Talking Shop. Using real-time role play, groups of students communicate with Trading Standards experts to cover a wide range of consumer issues relevant to their lives. The scenarios covered on Talking Shop are:

• Consumer rights and responsibilities
• Money matters
• Anti social behaviour and underage sales
• Food hygiene, healthy eating and nutrition

Comments from Nottingham teachers:

“The event went very well and the students enjoyed the experience - I enjoyed it too.  It allowed the students to take responsibility for their learning.”

“I was very impressed with the session, the students were extremely keen once they got into it and seemed to really enjoy it. They all commented on how much they enjoyed it and how the exercises helped them to clarify some of the theory they have been learning, so I'm really pleased.”

For more information, contact the Trading Standards Education & Information Officer on 0115 950 7932, by email at ts.advice@nottinghamcity.gov.uk or use our feedback form.

Ask CEdRIC

The Ask CEdRIC web site is a comprehensive national website dedicated to consumer education. It has been produced by Trading Standards professionals to provide teachers with all they need to teach the consumer education related aspects of the Citizenship curriculum.

Online resources

These two consumer education packages will give you more ideas and help you design your teaching programme. See Online Resources on the right of this page.

Other useful websites

Please see the links on the right for other websites offering information that is useful when teaching consumer education.