Introduction to financial capability and debt advice

What this course covers

Face to face and webinar training includes:

• the concept of financial capability

• alternative payment arrangements, personal budgeting support, writing a realistic budget and recording expenditure

• saving money, priority and non-priority spending

• generating income and grant funding

• conversations about money and ‘debt denial’

• banking, financial inclusion, borrowing and credit

• challenging and minimising liability for debt

• the Debt Respite Scheme (Breathing Space), Debt Relief Orders (DRO) and debt management plans

• administration orders, insolvency, individual voluntary arrangements, and bankruptcy

• government assistance in response to the cost of living crisis

Who this training is for

You don't need any prior knowledge for this course.

You might be a housing officer, income officer, support worker or adviser who doesn't specialise in debt, but needs to know the basics.