Students and Housing
Course available: in-house only (on a date and location of your choice)
Duration: 1 day
This course explores housing issues that affect students. In this regard participants will look at accessing and sustaining both private and social housing in light of the financial constraints that most students face. Sources of financial support, including welfare benefits and other sources of income are explored as these relate directly to sustaining accommodation; as does the types of courses a student could be attending.
Course contains
- Access to private accommodation
- Rent deposit schemes
- Characteristics of Assured Shorthold Tenancies
- Sustaining tenancies: financial awareness for students
- Getting someone on to the waiting list for social housing and maximising priority
- Types of courses and their implications for financial support
- Sources of financial support for students
- Which students are entitled to benefits
- Social Fund rules for eligible students
- Overview of the Housing Benefit rules for eligible students.
Suitable for
Student advisers and all those who have contact with students and are called upon to offer advice on housing and related issues.
