1. Home
  2. Courses

Courses

Courses by date

Adult disability payment - an introduction (Scotland) ONLINE

Adult disability payment (ADP) is a new Scottish benefit aimed at supporting working-age adults who have extra care needs or mobility difficulties because of a disability. It replaces personal independence payment in Scotland. Getting an award of ADP can significantly increase income and so it is a crucial benefit for advisers and others to know about. This introductory level course will give you an understanding of the main rules and help you to identify people who may be entitled.
Disability benefits Introductory Training in Scotland

Attendance Allowance - an introduction (online)

Attendance allowance (AA) is the main disability benefit for people who have reached pension age. Getting an award of AA can significantly increase income and so it is a crucial benefit for older people. This course will give you an understanding of the main rules and help you to identify people who may be entitled. The course is aimed at advisers with little or no experience of AA. The course covers:
Disability benefits Introductory

Attendance allowance - an introduction (Scotland) ONLINE

Attendance allowance (AA) is the main disability benefit for people who have reached pension age. Getting an award of AA can significantly increase income and so it is a crucial benefit for older people. This course will give you an understanding of the main rules and help you to identify people who may be entitled. AA will eventually devolve to Scotland and become pension age disability payment. This course will keep you up to date with any developments on this. The course covers:
Introductory Training in Scotland

Benefit basics in Scotland (Scotland) ONLINE

You do not need to be a benefit expert to make a difference. This course is for anyone working with people in Scotland on low incomes or with additional needs. You will learn the basics of social security and be able to identify which benefits are available to the people you work with. You will understand the key life events that can have an impact on benefit entitlement and recognise when someone should make a new claim or report a change in circumstances.      The course covers:
Introductory Training in Scotland

Benefit essentials with Disability Rights UK and CPAG (online)

Designed for those new to benefits advice work, this two-morning online course provides an essential introduction to the benefits system. Through CPAG’s collaboration with Disability Rights UK, this course is ideal for advisers looking to fully support clients who claim disability benefits. Participants will also gain an understanding of welfare benefits more generally, and how to help people maximise their income through benefits.
Disability benefits Introductory

Benefits and Domestic Abuse (online)

This one-day course is aimed at those supporting women fleeing from domestic abuse. Many women fleeing domestic violence will need to claim benefits in their own right, and for the majority of cases that will be universal credit (UC), especially if they have children. The course covers:
Introductory Universal credit

Benefits and the armed services community (Scotland) ONLINE

Do you advise or support former members of the British armed services and their families? You will know that it can be difficult to work out how their benefits are affected by the pensions and other payments they get after leaving the armed services.  This course will help you solve these problems and improve your ability to maximise income for former servicemen and women and their families.    The course covers: 
Introductory Training in Scotland

Benefits overview (online)

This one-day introductory level course, held over two consecutive mornings, provides an overview of the benefits system and examines how the system fits together. The course covers:
Benefit levels Introductory Universal credit

Benefits overview (Scotland) ONLINE

Most people will claim a social security benefit at some point in their lives. This course is for anyone new to helping people in Scotland navigate their way through the benefits system or who wants an overview of benefits.  The course gives an introduction to the benefits system looking at what it is, who it is for and how it all fits together.  The course covers:
Introductory Training in Scotland

Care-experienced young people and the benefits system (Scotland) ONLINE

Many young people who have been ‘looked after’ by the local authority are affected by special social security rules. Some are excluded from income-related benefits like universal credit and instead the local authority is responsible for supporting them. Some are entitled to a ‘care-experienced bursary’. This course looks at the special benefit rules for this group of young people and provides the opportunity to consider other support available.
Introductory Looked after children Training in Scotland