Adviser skills - writing benefit challenges
Build your skills with this practical course on effective drafting for benefit casework.
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7 Oct 2025
Courses
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Introduction to welfare rights
This is essential training if you are starting out as a welfare rights adviser in Scotland or need a good understanding of the benefits system.
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30 Sep 2025
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13 Jan 2026
Understanding revisions and supersessions
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.
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14 Oct 2025
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25 Feb 2026
Benefits overview
This two-morning course provides an overview of the benefits system and examines how the system fits together.
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16 Oct 2025
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12 Feb 2026
Social security law update
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.
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16 Oct 2025
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25 Mar 2026
Personal independence payment - disputes & appeals
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.
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20 Oct 2025
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4 Mar 2026
Benefits for non-EEA nationals
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.
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21 Oct 2025
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11 Feb 2026
Transferring to Scottish disability benefits
A system of Scottish disability benefits is replacing personal independence payment (PIP), disability living allowance (DLA) and attendance allowance (AA) for people living in Scotland.
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21 Oct 2025
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24 Mar 2026
Universal credit and students
This course explains in detail which students can claim universal credit and how student funding affects the amount they get.
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28 Oct 2025
Social security law update
Social security law can change from day to day and advisers need to keep abreast of developments to advise their clients correctly.
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30 Oct 2025
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19 Mar 2026