Child Poverty Action Group
The Child Poverty Action Group works to end poverty and hardship among children young people and families in the UK. Our vision is of a society in which every child can enjoy their childhood and reach their full potential.
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CPD Courses & Workshops
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Representing At The First-Tier Tribunal
Child Poverty Action Group
This two-day course provides a basic grounding in representing clients at the first-tier tribunal
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Universal Credit For Tenants In Social Housing
Child Poverty Action Group
This course explains how universal credit will work, with a particular focus on how it will affect c...
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Right To Reside And Habitual Residence
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course looks at the current operation of the right to reside and habitual residence tes...
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Universal Credit Training
Child Poverty Action Group
The introduction of universal credit fundamentally changes the system of benefits and tax credits. T...
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Benefits For People Subject To Immigration Control
Child Poverty Action Group
Advisers can find it difficult and intimidating to advise non-European nationals on how their immigr...
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Personal Independence Payment
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides an introduction to personal independence payment (pip) which is replaci...
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Tax Credits - Key Issues For Advisers
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course rounds up all of the outstanding issues you may encounter with tax credits, incl...
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Supporting Vulnerable Clients
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides the skills and strategies needed to resolve the problems vulnerable peo...
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Mental Health and Benefits
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides a practical and tactical look at working with people with mental health...
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Challenging PIP Decisions
Child Poverty Action Group
This one day course explains how to challenge personal independence payment (PIP) decisions and help...
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Challenging Work Programme Sanctions Seminar
Child Poverty Action Group
This half-day seminar explains how and why Work Programme sanctions can be imposed and explores the...
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Overpayment of Benefit
Child Poverty Action Group
This one day course provides an introduction to the new and existing rules on recovering benefit ove...
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Conditionality and Sanctions
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides an understanding of the current conditionality regime for claimants of...
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Judicial Review
Child Poverty Action Group
This one day course gives advisers and lawyers a clear understanding of the use of judicial review f...
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ESA Appeals
Child Poverty Action Group
The ESA Appeals course is a one-day course that looks at appeal issues and tactics for Employment an...
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Destitution
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course covers the issues that frequently cause clients to be left without any income an...
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Universal Credit for Job Seekers
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course looks at Universal Credit for the main group who will be affected initially as i...
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Welfare Reform What You Need to Know
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides advisers with an opportunity to get the latest information on welfare r...
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Introduction to Welfare Rights
Child Poverty Action Group
This five-day course provides advisers with a thorough introduction to means-tested benefits; univer...
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Dealing with Delays
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course looks at the legal and practical issues faced in trying to resolve issues of del...
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Benefits for Young People
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course helps advisers get to grips with the complex and changing benefit rules relating...
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Benefits for Non-Benefit Advisers
Child Poverty Action Group
This two-day course is aimed at professionals who work with low-income clients. It equips them with...
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Satisfying the Residence and Presence Tests: In De...
Child Poverty Action Group
This one day experienced level course looks in detail at how European nationals can satisfy the resi...
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Income Maximisation for Older People
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course provides an introduction to pension credit and aims to help participants with ef...
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ESA: The Problem Areas
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day course examines some of the problems commonly experienced by the 2.5 million claimants...
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Universal Credit – The Problem Areas
Child Poverty Action Group
This course looks in detail at some of the emerging areas of dispute that universal credit claimants...
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Benefits for Students
Child Poverty Action Group
This course provides a basic knowledge of the social security benefits and tax credits available for...
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Using Legislation and Caselaw
Child Poverty Action Group
Advisers regularly deal with complex areas of social security and tax credits law. This one-day cour...
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Universal Credit - From A - Z
Child Poverty Action Group
This practical two-day course has been developed in response to both feedback we have received from...
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Universal Credit for Disabled People
Child Poverty Action Group
As the migration to universal credit (UC) continues; more individuals with ill health and disabiliti...
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Benefits for EEA Nationals
Child Poverty Action Group
This one-day standard level course looks at the benefit rules that particularly affect EEA nationals...
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Challenging WCA Decisions
Child Poverty Action Group
The work capability assessment (WCA) applies in both employment and support allowance (ESA) and univ...
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