Accessing Grants, Loans and Financial Support for Clients
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of the Social Fund and other forms of financial assistance. It will help participants to identify potential applications and provide practical strategies for supporting successful claims for crisis loans, budgeting loans, community care grants and discretionary housing payments.
Course contains
- Overview of the regulated Social Fund and how it differs from the discretionary Social Fund
- The main features of the discretionary Social Fund system of community care grants, crisis loans and budgeting loans
- Advice on completing the claim forms and tactics to use in supporting cases
- Overview of the review process
- How to challenge unfavourable decisions
- Making successful claims for discretionary housing payments.
Suitable for
Supported housing workers, homelessness prevention officers, tenancy sustainment officers, social workers, benefit advisers or anyone working in a supportive role in the housing sector.
