‘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.
You do not need to be a benefit expert to make a difference. This course is for anyone working with people in Scotland on low incomes or with additional needs.
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.
Make sure you are up to date with how recent benefit changes and current issues impact on kinship carers.
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.
