South West Advice Training
South West Advice Training was set up to provide high-quality, low-cost training in response to the needs of advisers across the South-West. We are part of the Advice Centres for Avon network and have been running popular courses in the region for 20 years. Please see below for more details about our current courses, booking information, and how to contact us.
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SWAT TRAINING PROGRAM SUMMER 2012
WELFARE BENEFITS MADE SIMPLE
MONDAY, 25 JUNE 2012
Trainer: Anthea Sweeney & Charlotte Richards
This one day course will provide participants with a basic introduction to welfare benefits and credits.
By the end of the day participants will have:
- developed an understanding of the information needed to make a benefit claim and to check entitlement;
- developed an awareness of the benefits system; its complexity and structure and an insight into the interlinking of benefits.
You will:
- understand who may be able to make a claim for welfare benefits
- understand the three main benefit groups
- understand how the main means tested benefits are calculated
- recognise factors which can increase or decrease benefit entitlement
- and gain an awareness of: the barriers to claiming benefits and effective ways to assist people to access the benefits they are entitled to at the appropriate rate.
Current trainers:
Anthea Sweeney has been in advice work since 1992, as a Welfare Rights Co-ordinator (supervisor) in Bristol City Council Welfare Rights and Money Advice Service (WRAMAS) for 3 years and before that in welfare rights posts in London including Leytonstone Citizens Advice Bureau, Southwark Welfare Rights Unit and the Terrence Higgins Trust.
Charlotte Richards is a welfare rights adviser who has been working in WRAMAS for 9 years, most recently in the Welfare Rights Support Service providing specialist back-up for support workers, including casework with appeals representation. Both Anthea and Charlotte are experienced benefits trainers.
Jayne Knights is a Welfare Benefits Trainer. She worked for 14 years at Brighton and Hove City Council as a Welfare Benefits Trainer and Advocate specialising in social housing, mental health, substance misuse and all services relating to older people, disabled people and families in low paid work.
Gary Vaux a leading welfare rights expert. He is an author for CPAG, Family Rights Group, Fostering Network, CESI, Community Care and "Yours" magazines, BBC Radio and TV, Central Law Training, AWD Chase de Vere, University of Hertfordshire and other charities, voluntary and statutory organisations. Chair of Social Security Advisers Group at local Government Association; adviser to Association of Directors of Adult Social Services; member of independent Low Review on disability living allowance; former Exec Committee member of CPAG.
Booking information:
To book a place on any of these courses please download our booking form from here: SWAT Booking form
Please complete the form and email it to: admin.swat@gmail.com
Feedback from previous courses:
Here is a selection of the feedback we have recieved for our previous training programmes. We alway welcome feedback, good or bad, so if you have any comments on our courses, or would like us to run a specific course that we do not already offer, please get in touch via email: admin.swat@gmail.com