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Make sure you are up to date with how recent benefit changes and current issues impact on kinship carers.

‘Kinship care’ is the situation in which a child goes to live with a member of their extended family or with a family friend. This course looks at benefit issues that arise for kinship carers.

This course gives you an overview of benefit support for families in Scotland from pregnancy to school-leaving age.

The requirement to have a right to reside for key benefits such as universal credit, remains a significant barrier preventing many EEA nationals accessing these benefits.

This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.

Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.

Adult disability payment (ADP) is now well-established as the Scottish disability benefit for working-age people and there is a significant, and growing, body of ADP caselaw emerging from the Upper