Scotland

The companion to our popular Student Support and Benefits Handbook, this annual title is the key guide to the benefits system for students in Scotland.

It includes a quick guide to the grants and loans available for further and higher education in Scotland, and clear, easy-to-use information on students’ benefit entitlement and how this is affected by their student income. Also included is information on how benefits are affected in vacations and if a student takes time out from their course.

Fully updated for the 2019/20 academic year, the book is an invaluable resource for anyone who advises students in Scotland. It is fully cross-referenced to the law and includes easy-to-use checklists and examples.

 This is the comprehensive guide to benefits and tax credits where children are living apart from their parents, including children in kinship or foster care, children being looked after by the local authority, or at residential school, in residential care or in hospital.

Updated to include the impact of all recent social security changes, including universal credit and the ‘bedroom tax’, it covers:

- benefit and tax credit entitlement when children are living away from home
- how payments made by local authorities to carers affect benefits and tax credits
- local authority responsibilities to care leavers
- how to challenge decisions.

Fully referenced to legislation and caselaw, and with easy-to-follow practical examples, it is an essential guide for anyone working with families and children in Scotland.