Welcome to the education zone

This area is for anyone who teaches children, including primary and secondary school teachers, volunteer teachers and assistants, parents and people working in further education or outside of a structured education environment.

It contains material to help you teach children about:

How the government raises money and how tax pays for our society - visit the big blue office on Directgov :

• A brief history of income tax
• what school leavers need to know about tax and National Insurance (coming soon)
• your money in the Child Trust Fund:
• smuggling and detection and lots more

It has links to:

• lesson plans
• games
• cartoons
• things to do at home

We recommend:

Fair shares - our online interactive game that puts you in charge of raising taxes and spending money in the DirectgovKids town. Can you keep everyone in the town happy and still balance your budget?