Training
Lasa offers high quality welfare rights training courses, and a series of half day workshops. Details of all our courses and workshops, including online booking and prices, are all available on lasa's rightsnet website.
What courses do we offer?
We offer a range of welfare benefits and tax credits courses, ranging from our introductory Welfare Benefits Overview to our more specialist Representation at First Tier Appeals Tribunals. In addition we offer a series of half-day workshops, including in relation to the latest welfare reforms.
All our courses are designed to build participants' skills and confidence, and equip advisers with the tools they need to maximise clients' income.
Our programme courses run at our offices in London, but we can also deliver any of our courses in-house.
Why choose Lasa?
- 100% of attendees rate our training courses as excellent or very good. We provide the high quality training that you'd expect from the organisation that brings you the UK's leading welfare rights website for advice workers
- All our trainers.are experts in the welfare rights field and many still work in the advice sector, so our courses are guaranteed to be up to date and relevant
- Training is supplemented by exercises, case studies and take-home course booklets to enable on-going learning and support
- Our in-house training is an economical and flexible solution for groups of 6 people or more
- Most courses have a maximum of 12 participants ensuring that everyone receives individual attention and providing excellent networking opportunities for trainees
- Smaller organisations are welcome to jointly commission training, and tuition can take place at our central London offices or a venue of your choice
- We can tailor any of our welfare rights courses specifically for your requirements, and we can even write new courses to meet your learning objectives
- Our prices are very competitive, with discounts available for bookings of 3 days or more
- Our courses are Law Society accredited
Who do we train?
We train advice workers from the independent advice sector, housing associations, local authorities and other voluntary, statutory and private sector organisations.Whatever level you're at we have a course to suit you.
We have previously worked with a wide range of organisations from small advice projects to large stautory organistions, including:
Citizens advice bureaux; law centres; local authorities; homelessness organisations, including St Mungos and Single Homelessness Project (SHP), housing associations, including Metroplitan Housing Trust; Age UK; Great Ormond Street hospital; Parkinsons UK; Scope; Dial UK; Migrant's Resource Centre; Solace Women's Aid; Pierce Glynn Solicitors.
What our delegates say:
"Very knowledgeable, welcoming, experienced and effective trainers. Achieved and exceeded objectives" - Age UK
"I recommend it to all advisers" - Stonewall Housing
Find out more:
To find out more about our courses and workshops, visit the training pages on our rightsnet website. Or, alternatively, you can email us on training@lasa.org.uk or speak to our training co-ordinator Alice Arrenberg on Tel: 020 7377 9981.