Courses

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

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. 

‘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.

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.

The welfare benefits system is complicated and confusing, both to claimants and those whose resp

This training course focuses on universal credit (UC), the centre piece of the Government’s welfare reform programme.

The work capability assessment (WCA) test dominates employment support allowance (ESA) and universal credit (UC) in relation to sick claimants.