Scotland welfare rights conference
2024 will be a critical election year. What difference could it make to the future of social security, the lives of low-income families and the work of frontline advisers?
2024 will be a critical election year. What difference could it make to the future of social security, the lives of low-income families and the work of frontline advisers?
This course is aimed at frontline advisers supporting claimants in work and for advisers supporting claimants back into work.
This two-morning course will enable you to assess which of a client’s debts should be given priority, in order to try to avoid the loss of their home, essential goods or services and imprison
This two-morning course provides a practical and tactical look at working with people with mental health diagnoses to help secure full entitlement to benefits, and to help avoid some of the p
This course provides a practical and tactical look at working with people with mental health diagnoses to help secure full entitlement to benefits and avoid some of the pitfalls of the system.
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.
This one-day standard level online course looks at the universal credit (UC) rules that particularly affect ill or disabled people.
Carer support payment is a new Scottish benefit which replaces carer’s allowance in Scotland. This course will update you on the transfer from carer’s allowance to carer support payment.
This course provides an introduction to benefits delivered by Social Security Scotland.