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Intermediate Benefits | Benefits and Tax Credits | Consumer | Debt | Financial Capability

Employment | Family, Health and Society | Housing | Immigration

Finance and funding | Management | Skills

PLEASE CONTACT THE TRAINING DEPARTMENT ON; 01142803920

Specialist Training

Advice Support Training (AST) provides a comprehensive training programme for new and experienced advice workers - a valued resource as there is very little equivalent local training available to advice workers and outside agencies.

We will also teach tailored and commissioned specialist courses in advice subjects - please contact us to discuss your needs.

Intermediate Benefits Course

This 4-day course can be attended as a follow-on to the Advice Work Skills course, or booked as individual short courses. It covers:

Day 1: Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance and Pension Credits

Day 2: Employment Support Allowance and incapacity benefit

Day 3: Housing Benefit and Council tax benefit

Day 4: Tax Credits

Short Courses

This rolling programme ensures that advice centres keep up to date with changes in local and national legislation, and develop their services to meet the needs of their community. The programme includes advanced welfare benefit course, sextensive debt and housing courses, sessions on challenging benefit decisions

Specialist and Short Course Brochure

Our Training Courses brochure for 2011-12 can be downloaded by clicking here.

You can also obtain our Training Courses brochure for 2012-13 by post; by e-mailing your address to training@debtsupportunit.org.uk or phone 0114 280 3920

Booking

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Short Course Programme

Course	Date
Intermediate Benefits Course
Income Support, JSA and Pension Credits	10 Dec 2012 15 Apr 2013 08 Jul 2013
Employment Support Allowance and Incapacity Benefit	11 Dec 2012 17 Apr 2013 10 Jul 2013
Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit	17 Dec 2012 22 Apr 2013 15 Jul 2013
Tax Credits	18 Dec 2012 24 Apr 2013 17 Jul 2013
Welfare Benefits and Tax Credits
Researching Benefits Law	10 Oct 2012 11 Mar 2013
Appeals to the First Tier Tribunal	19 Nov 2012 20 Mar 2013
Appealing to the Upper Tribunal	04 Dec 2012 08 May 2013
Welfare Reform & "Localism" -April 2013 Changes	14 Mar 2013 26 Apr 2013
Universal Credit- First Look at the Regulations	22 Nov 2012
Personal Independence Payment	26 Mar 2013 19 Apr 2013 07 Jun 2013
Universal Credit	27 Jun 2013 16 Jul 2013
Migrating from Incapacity Benefit to ESA (1/2 day)	04 Feb 2013
Making Successful Applications for Disability Living Allowance	29 Nov 2012 12 Feb 2013
Means Tested Benefits Made Simple (No Calculations)	06 Dec 2012 09 Jul 2013
Welfare Benefits Made Simple	24 Sept 2012 13 May 2013
After Pension Age	03 Oct 2012 20 May 2013
Carers	19 Dec 2012 29 April 2013
Challenging Overpayments	20 Nov 2012 11 Feb 2013
Consumer
Introduction to Consumer Rights - course on 28th Feb cancelled due to revision for upcoming legislative changes	18 Oct 2012 (28 Feb 2013)
Advanced Consumer Law - course on 28th march cancelled due to revision for upcoming legislative changes	06 Dec 2012 (28 Mar 2013)
Debt
Money Debts in the County Court -	04 Dec 2012 02 Jul 2013
Strategies for Dealing with Debt (2-day course)	See brochure
Dealing with Rent Arrears	26 Sept 2012 14 Jan 2013
Dealing with Mortgage Arrears	15 Oct 2012 13 May 2013
Debt Awareness and Drawing up a Personal Budget	07 Mar 2013 18 Jul 2013
Debt Awareness	12 Dec 2012 18 Apr 2013
Financial Capability
Financial Capability - An introduction	See brochure
Financial capability - Budgeting and Bills	See brochure
Employment
Introduction to Employment Law	See brochure
Advanced Employment Law	19 Dec 2012 22 May 2013
Representing at Employment Tribunals	02 Oct 2012 16 Apr 2013
Family, Health and Society
Communicating with people with Learning Disabilities	12 Mar 2013
Mental Health - Good Practice	23 May 2013
Family Law and Domestic Abuse	03 Oct 2012 27 Mar 2013
Immigration
Immgrattion for Non-Advisers	20 Nov 2012
Foreign Workers: Legal & Illegal Working	27 Nov 2012 15 May 2013
Immigration and Nationality Law for OISC Level 1 (4 day modular)	01,08,15 & 22 Oct 2012 16,23 Jan,06 & 13 Feb 2013
Immigration and Welfare Rghts	24 Oct 2012 06 Mar 2013
Immigration & Nationality - OISC Level 2 (5 day modular - days bookable individually)	08,15 Feb,01,08 & 15 Mar 2013
Immigration Update	14 Feb 2013
Housing
Introduction to Housing Law	See brochure
Homelessness	17 Oct 2012
Housing Status	04 Feb 2013
Dealing with Rent Arrears	26 Sept 2012 14 Jan 2013
Dealing with Mortgage Arrears	15 Oct 2012 13 May 2013
Finance and Funding
Contract Bid Writing	24 Oct 2012 25 Apr 2013
Understanding Procurement	27 Sept 2012 13 Mar 2013
Working with Funders	07 Feb 2013
Fit for Funding	21 Mar 2013
Skills
Working Effectively with Others	09 May 2013
Skills for Reception Workers	10 Oct 2012 05 Feb 2013
Introduction to Telephone Advice Skills	12 Dec 2012 08 May 2013
Presentation Skills	13 Dec 2012
Management
Motivational Interviewing	17 Jul 2013
Managing a Dispersed Team	27 Feb 2013
Improving Productivity and Profitability	15 Jul 2013
Practical Leadership	04 Oct 2012
Raising the Profile of Your Organisation	15 May 2013
Dealing with Uncertainty	26 Jun 2013
Partnership Working	06 Jun 2013
Handling Pressure	03 Jul 2013