Free training course on Housing Rights for Refugees: Homelessness and Temporary Accommodation

If you support people with refugee status around housing, Advicenow's FREE online course has vital legal knowledge to help you do your work. It aims to give you the essential knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people with refugee status experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.

This course aims to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people with refugee status experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.

The course will be delivered online. You will be required to watch short introductory videos before each interactive session.

Week 1

Monday 8th June 10am-12.30pm Housing and Benefits

Tuesday 9th June 10am-12.30pm Dealing with Homelessness Applications

Thursday 11th June 10am-12.30pm Living in Temporary Accommodation

Week 2

Monday 15th June 10am-12.30pm Bidding for Social Housing

Tuesday 16th June 10am-12.30pm The basics of tenancies and other housing arrangements

It is important you are able to attend all five sessions as later sessions build upon the knowledge from previous ones.

Who is this workshop for?

This course is aimed at staff and volunteers from community, voluntary sector and grassroots organisations. Due to our funding requirements we cannot offer places to people working in local authorities, housing providers, estate agents or organisations that charge for their advice services.

It is intended for organisations in England, as legal frameworks are different across the devolved nations.

The course is suitable for people without formal legal training. It will be most useful for those who have some experience of housing issues - whether through work, volunteering, or other experience. The workshop will be delivered in English, and any accessibility needs can be shared through the registration form.

The workshop is free to attend. However, spaces are limited. We will prioritise participants from community, voluntary or grassroot organisations who have not previously attended one of our housing courses. Due to limited capacity, we will accept a maximum of two participants per organisation.

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Event details

Where

Online

When

Start: 8^th June, 2026 at 10:00am

End: 16^th June, 2026 at 12:30pm

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