This course covers:
- The special benefit rules affecting 16 and 17-year-olds leaving care and in continuing care, including young people who have been living with kinship carers.
- Local authorities’ powers and responsibilities towards care-experienced young people.
- Universal credit and care-experienced young people.
- The care-experienced bursary and its interaction with the social security system.
- Other help available to care-experienced young people, including the new care leaver payment.
