Level 3 Certificate course 2011/12 - Local Taxation & Benefits
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COURSE DATES
This is a day release course. Sessions take place weekly on Wednesdays between September 2011 and May 2012.
VENUE
Sessions are held at the popular Elm Bank Training Centre in Coventry. It is easily accessible from the motorway system, and is located off Junction 5 of the Coventry ring road. It is just five minutes' walk from the train station and a local bus route. There is free on-site parking and excellent restaurant facilities.
SYLLABUS
All students will study 4 subjects, of which 3 are compulsory: Housing and Council Tax Benefits Law, Council Tax Law and Revenue and Benefits Administration.
For their 4th subject, students can choose between Non-Domestic Rating Law (for revenues students), and Prevention and Detection of Housing & Council Tax Benefit Fraud (for benefits students).
The course costs £795.00 (including relevant textbooks). To enrol, or to request further information, please e-mail us at irrvwma@googlemail.com.
Events coming up in the West Midlands area. To add your details to our
mailing list and/or register your interest in any of our events, please e-mail
us at irrvwma@googlemail.com.
The second meeting of this year's programme was another well-received event, with Bob Trahern and Tim Savill sharing their knowledge and understanding of the impending changes with a group of around 20 members and colleagues.
The second meeting of this year's programme will shortly be upon us and the Association invites you to attend what should prove to be a very topical and interesting subject matter given the Government's impending changes to the benefits scheme.
The first Association meeting of the new programme saw Toby Holt of insolvency practitioners Smith & Williamson, and Andrew Hobley of the Local Government Ombudsman's office, talking about the work they do.
Paul Sanderson is addressing the Association in January on matters of current interest in the valuation field. The meeting will take place at Meetingspace, Eleven Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2LP between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Paul Sharpe of Equita talks to the Association from 4 p.m. on Wednesday 9 November 2011 at the Council House, Earl Street, Coventry on the topic of “what your bailiff can do for you”.
This event is brought to you jointly by the Association and
CIPFA in the Midlands (CIM), and takes place on Tuesday 11 October 2011
between 4.30 and 6.30 p.m. in Committee Rooms 2 and 3 of the Council
House, Earl Street, Coventry Street CV1 5RR.
This year's event took place at the Holiday Inn just off the M6 at Junction 7, near Birmingham. A good time was had by all!
We welcomed students to the 2011/12 Level 3 Certificate course, and handed out certificates to last year's successful candidates.
Standing room only as Gordon Heath talks empty rates and
Bluetooth servers!
The Rating Surveyors Association (RSA) has appointed Graham Ryall, a Director in Colliers CRE's Birmingham Rating team, President for its next year of operation.
