Courses

Our annual face to face conference in Manchester returns to thestudio Manchester, The Hive, 51 Lever Street, Manchester, M1 1FN on Wednesday 8 October 2025. 

Disability living allowance (DLA) is an important way for families to meet the additional needs of ill or disabled children. This practical half-day course explains the eligibility rules and considers how to complete an application to get the best outcome for the child.

This online training course gives a comprehensive overview of steps in the UC disputes process, from mandatory reconsideration through to appeal. 

The benefits system is a decisions-based system. This course gives advisers the technical understanding needed to successfully navigate it, by explaining in detail the rules about how a decision can be made and then changed.

Social security law and tax credit law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly. Arranged under topic headings and concentrating on regulations and caselaw, this essential course looks at the most important changes in benefit and tax credits law from the previous six months.

This training course looks at how to ensure that a PIP revision or appeal should work to the best advantage of claimants. A good PIP challenge means getting the PIP entitlement arguments right. 

This standard level course offers an opportunity for advisers to gain knowledge and confidence to advise non-European nationals on how their immigration status affects their entitlement to benefits.