Courses

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

Make sure you know how recent benefit changes are likely to affect students.

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. 

When a Scottish benefit is refused, an award is wrong or there is an overpayment, what steps can you take to put things right?

This two day face-to-face training course gives a basic grounding in representing clients at the First-tier Tribunal.

‘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.