Society Matters CIC

Social welfare training and support

Society Matters CIC

Society Matters CIC

Society Matters CIC is a social enterprise and the trading subsidiary of local charity Citizens Advice Gateshead. Our quality endorsed training courses and workshops have been designed to help professionals involved in welfare support to have a much clearer understanding of the social welfare issues being faced by the people they work with every day, including the complexities of welfare benefits and housing.

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Get to grips with Universal Credit

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This highly interactive; quality accredited Universal Credit training course has been designed to he...

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Get to Grips with Personal Independence Payment

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This PIP training course is designed to help the people and organisations that are providing social...

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Get to Grips with Understanding Current Welfare Be...

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Since the introduction of Universal Credit and PIP in 2013 with the objective of simplifying the wel...

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Understanding Stress and Mental Health

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Going from under pressure to being stressed; can affect us both physically; mentally; and emotionall...

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Housing and Homelessness Matters

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The direct link between housing and homelessness matters and physical and mental health makes housin...

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Money Matters

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This course is structured in 3 parts: 1) Understanding debt: What are the main causes of debt?; Diff...

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Financial Fitness - Get your money in shape

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This highly interactive series of Financial Fitness workshops is designed to help you get your money...

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Challenging Welfare Decisions (Advanced)

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The process of claiming benefits is not always an easy one: and sadly not everyone is given the awar...

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Get to Grips with Universal Credit (Advanced)

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Maintaining a Universal Credit claim can also be a challenge especially if you suffer from addiction...

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Prisoners and Welfare Benefits (An Introduction)

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Prisoners and their families face massive challenges both before and after spending time in prison w...

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Get to Grips with Disability Living Allowance for...

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This 4 hour training course is delivered through a highly interactive online session: and is partic...

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Carers and Caring Benefits Workshop (An Introducti...

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There are an estimated 10.6 million carers in the UK that's 1 in 5 adults with 600 people a day havi...

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Immigration and welfare benefits

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Identifying different types of support when it comes to welfare benefits and housing can be challeng...

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