This is what you'll find in the different Dangos sessions.
This half-day session covers:
• Why people need help and often don’t get it
• Why don’t people get the help they’re entitled to
• Recognising the people who need help
• Stages in life, the problems people face and the help they could get
• Means-tested benefits
• Earnings replacement benefits
• Disability benefits
• How claiming works
• Other financial help in Wales
• Advisors, what they can do and how to find them
• Help with working with clients
Dangos Intermediate Course
This half-day session follows on from the basic course or provides a refresher for more experienced staff. It covers:
• The cost of living and the poverty premium
• The reality of absolute and relative poverty
• Debt and the routes out of debt
• The benefit system and how it’s changing
• Means-tested benefits
• Earnings replacement benefits
• Disability benefits
• How they fit together
• Housing Issues
• Health Issues
• Social Care issues
• Groups with special issues
• Refugees, Asylum Seekers and Immigrants
• Prisoners
• Other financial support in Wales
• Nudging people to take action
• Working together to achieve more.
• Taking it forward
The intermediate course can be ‘tweaked’ to put a bit more emphasis on housing, healthcare or social care for in-house courses for in-house sessions
Older People and their Finances
This half-day session covers:
• Age
• When are you treated as old and why does it matter
• Pensions
• State, private and occupational pensions. What are they and when, and how, can you get them
• Pension freedoms and how to best use them
• Why what you take isn’t what ends up in your pocket. Tax and benefits impacts.
• Benefits and more
• Means-tested benefits for older people
• Help for disabled people and their carers
• Other financial support in Wales
• Housing help
• Bereavement
• Help and support
• Financial abuse
• Longevity and future issues
• Help, information and support
This half-day session covers:
• Children & young people
• who are they and why does it matter
• Financial help in pregnancy
• After the baby’s born
• Childcare & work
• Help while at school
• After 16
• Non-advanced education
• Working or looking for work
• Students
• Young people in care and leaving care
• Benefits
• For the family
• In-work help
• For young people
• Other financial support in Wales
• Help, information and support
This half-day session provides a view of what has changed recently and what is changing in the future. It will be a constantly updated view of what’s going on reflecting changes and new pressures as they occur. It’s ideal as a refresher for experienced workers or as an introduction to what’s newly happening in Wales for less experienced workers, alongside the other Dangos sessions.
Don’t forget the existing Dangos sessions are still going strong and provide a great introduction to the kind of problems that people face and the help that is available in Wales, through the basic course. The intermediate course takes things further and is an ideal follow-up.
Those in Need of Care
This half-day session covers:
• Benefits and other support
• Means tested benefits
• Disability and related benefits
• Housing support and adaptations
• Other financial help
• Types of care and where to get it
• Domiciliary
• Residential
• Day Care
• Supported Living
• Nursing care
• Carer’s needs
• Charging for care
• Who has to pay
• How to meet charges
• Assessment and advocacy
• Where to get help
