Social prescribing Introduction to Social Welfare Advice & Welfare Benefits

The Insights Team works across the Bromley by Bow Centre and Bromley by Bow Health Partnership to support the development and sharing of the Centre's principles, model and learning through developing research, supporting innovation and sharing our knowledge nationwide. We work closely with our services, partners and local people to inform the development and evaluation of effective, community led initiatives that empower and build a vibrant, cohesive and healthy community.

Bromley by Bow Insights

This course will be delivered by the Bromley by Bow Centre and the Benefits Training Company over three sessions in June.

This course will be delivered by the Bromley by Bow Centre and the Benefits Training Company.The three sessions of the course are on:<ul><li>Tuesday 8th June at 10:00 - 12:30</li><li>Tuesday15th June at 10:00 - 12:30</li><li>Tuesday 22nd June at 10:00 - 12:30</li></ul>AimsImprove understanding of social welfare advice needs and the welfare benefits system, enabling better identification of those in need of advice and improved ability to support and refer clients as needed.Learning ObjectivesBy the end of the course, participants will:<ul><li>Be able to identify signs that someone has a social welfare advice issue</li><li>Build knowledge on the range of issues social welfare advice services can support with</li><li>Understand what a link worker can help with and what needs to be addressed by a trained advisor</li><li>Understand how to make an effective referral to social welfare advice services</li><li>Understand how the benefits system is structured and who can claim each of the benefits which make up the system </li><li>Be able to complete a basic benefits check to ensure people are claiming their likely entitlements </li><li>Know how to check that a benefits decision is correct and what to do if it is not</li></ul>

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