Training
Lasa offers high quality welfare rights training courses. Details of all our courses, including booking information, directions and prices, are all available on lasa's rightsnet website.
What courses do we offer?
We provide programme and in-house training on a range of welfare benefits and tax credits topics, ranging from the introductory Welfare Benefits Overview to our more specialist Representation at First Tier Appeals Tribunals and Introduction to Debt Advice. All our courses enable advisers to spot benefit entitlement and maximise clients' income.
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 local authorities including:
- Local Authorities (ranging from LB Camden to Leeds City Council)
- Single Homelessness Project (SHP)
- Age Concern & Help the Aged
- Migrant's Resource Centre
- Solace Women's Aid
- Clapham Community Project
- Pierce Glynn Solicitors
What our delegates say:
"Very knowledgeable, welcoming, experienced and effective trainers. Achieved and exceeded objectives"
Age Concern and Help the Aged
"I recommend it to all advisors"
Stonewall Housing
Find out more:
Visit Rightsnet training pages for more information about our welfare benefits and tax credit training courses and in-house training.
For general enquiries about training please email training@lasa.org.uk or speak to our training co-ordinator Cassia Weaver on Tel: 020 7377 9981.