Courses

Make sure you are up to date with how recent benefit changes and current issues impact on kinship carers.

Many young people who have been ‘looked after’ by the local authority are affected by special social security rules.

‘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.

This course gives you an overview of benefit support for families in Scotland from pregnancy to school age.

This two-morning course is aimed at those supporting women fleeing from domestic abuse.

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

Disability living allowance (DLA) is the main way of meeting the additional needs of many children, yet it is under-claimed and can be hard to understand.

This course is aimed at frontline advisers supporting claimants in work and for advisers supporting claimants back into work.  

This one-day standard level online course looks at the universal credit (UC) rules that particularly affect ill or disabled people.