Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Event on
20 Nov 2025
Courses
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Universal credit - work capability assessment and disability rules
This two-morning, standard level online course provides an overview of the universal credit (UC) rules for ill and disabled claimants.
Event on
19 Nov 2025
Also on
23 Mar 2026
Benefits for EEA nationals - advanced
This advanced level course looks in detail at the social security rights of EEA nationals in the UK. It provides an opportunity for advisers who are familiar with some of the more commonly occurring scenarios to focus on specific complex areas and recent significant developments.
Event on
20 Nov 2025
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4 Mar 2026
Kinship carers and the benefits system
‘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.
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21 Nov 2025
Universal credit - students
This one-morning course gives a practical overview of the universal credit rules for further and higher education students.
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24 Nov 2025
Also on
10 Mar 2026
Universal credit - transitional protection
This half-day course looks at the transitional protection available to claimants on migration from legacy benefits to universal credit (UC). It focuses on the protection available for claimants getting income-related ESA, the benefit that will be the subject of most remaining migration activity during 2025
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24 Nov 2025
Also on
19 Mar 2026
Benefits for EEA nationals - advanced
This advanced level course looks in detail at the social security rights of EEA nationals in the UK. It provides an opportunity for advisers who are familiar with some of the more commonly occurring scenarios to focus on specific complex areas and recent significant developments.
Event on
25 Nov 2025
Benefit basics in Scotland
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.
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1 Dec 2025
Also on
17 Mar 2026
Judicial review
Judicial review is an essential tool for challenging decisions that affect benefit and tax credit claimants where there is no right of appeal. This interactive course gives advisers a clear understanding of its potential use and helps them to develop their skills in challenging unlawful decision-making.
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2 Dec 2025
Universal credit - work capability case law and best practice
This course looks in detail at some of the more difficult advice topics around the work capability assessment (WCA). Aimed at advisers with a good background knowledge of the WCA rules, the course focuses on the ‘substantial risk’ criteria and how to apply them to clients who do not fit into point-scoring categories. The course also looks at how to optimise WCA challenges at the revision and appeal stages by taking a technical approach, based on identifying the relevant regulations and supporting case law.
Event on
8 Dec 2025
Also on
16 Mar 2026