Morris-Cotterill: why kids aren't taught about fraud.
My own experience with both SAFE WORD: NO and The Fraud Awareness Project is that talkers talk but nothing reaches the grass roots and the young shoots. There is a serious problem that seems to be that the education sector, globally, does not see fraud awareness as an inherent part of education from the earliest age.
Worse, there is so much noise within those that talk, of which educational leaders are part, that they cannot be ignorant of the problems that could be mitigated (but never negated) by teaching fraud not as an ethics or moral issue but as a risk issue.
"Don't run on wet floors" is ubiquitous" as is "don't talk to strangers": how does that not translate into "be careful in case someone is trying to trick you"?
The only conclusion I can come to is because teachers don't want it to.
Further reading:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9qednjzwv1o
https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-04-23/debates/12C0577E-2DD8-…
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