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  • Supporting Low Income Households to Manage Welfare Benefit Changes

    Created: 30/11/2016
    News/Events Category: Training and Learning


    When: 9.30am - 4.30pm, Tuesday 07 February 2017
    Where: The Bay Hotel, Pettycur Bay, Burntisland Road, Kinghorn KY3 9YE
    This event is being organised by Fife Health and Wellbeing Alliance
    This particular event is free to attend, so no payment is required.


    It is too late to book a place for this particular session, sorry about that.

    Aims

    This course has been designed for frontline staff who require an understanding of the nature of poverty in Fife and changes to the welfare system and how they will affect people in Fife. The training should help staff provide initial advice and referral to specialist support services.

    Outcomes

    Successful completion of this course will provide:

    • An understanding of the nature of poverty in Fife and how it provides a context to the UK Government’s welfare reforms;
    • The ability to summarise the main changes made to the benefits system, to identify which groups are affected by them and the impacts they have had ;
    • An overview of emerging big changes particularly in relation to Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payments including up to date timetables for implementation;
    • An understanding of benefit conditionality and how clients can avoid welfare benefit sanctions and appeal or manage those sanctions if they are imposed; and
    • Information on how people can access the Scottish Welfare fund, get support to manage their money and access other specialist support services.

    The training will be supported by an online resource which will provide case studies, provide more information on course content, specialist support services and give links to tools.

    Who should attend?

    Those from any organisation who work with people on low incomes. Participants do not need an in-depth knowledge of current benefits and welfare related work to attend. A short e-learning module on “Welfare Reform: What you need to know” is now available for NHS Fife staff on LearnPro.

    Facilitators

    Mark Willis, Child Poverty Action Group

    How to book

    Click here for the online booking form




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