Students and benefits - the basics
This course provides a basic overview of social security benefits, and which further and higher education students in Scotland might be able to claim them.
Event on
6 May 2025 (booking closed)
Courses
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Students and benefits - an update
Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.
Event on
29 May 2025
Also on
20 Nov 2025
Adviser skills - Understanding social security law and finding it online
Entitlement to social security is determined by whether or not a claimant meets the legal rules relevant to the benefit in question. Similarly, the processes that must be followed. This full-day standard level course is suitable for advisers who undertake benefit casework.
Event on
3 Jun 2025
Also on
1 Oct 2025, 10 Feb 2026
Adviser skills - writing benefit challenges
Build your skills with this practical course on effective drafting for benefit casework.
Event on
18 Jun 2025
Also on
7 Oct 2025
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.
Event on
24 Jun 2025
Also on
2 Dec 2025
Appeals to the upper tribunal
This course is essential for anyone who wants to challenge decisions of the First-tier Tribunal (Social Entitlement Chamber) effectively.
Event on
2 Jul 2025
Also on
4 Nov 2025, 18 Mar 2026
Universal credit - students
This one-morning course gives a practical overview of the universal credit rules for further and higher education students.
Event on
3 Jul 2025
Also on
24 Nov 2025, 10 Mar 2026
Claimants and custody
A period spent in prison – on remand or serving a sentence – can have far-reaching consequences for social security benefit entitlement, both for the person in prison and for their family.
Event on
21 Aug 2025
Appeals to the Upper Tribunal
This course is essential for welfare rights advisers in Scotland who want to challenge decisions of the First-tier Tribunal effectively.
Event on
9 Sep 2025
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.
Event on
16 Oct 2025
Also on
25 Mar 2026