COVID-19 and the Child Trust Fund

Dr Rajiv Prabhakar is a Senior Lecturer in Personal Finance at The Open University. He is the author of Financial Inclusion: critique and alternatives to be published by Policy Press in 2021. In this blog, published in the journal Renewal, he explores the role that Child Trust Funds, initiated by the Labour Government in 2002, could play in helping young people struggling with the financial effects of COVID-19.

Read the full blog, published 22 June, 2020, in Renewal

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