The closing date to apply for a primary school place for September 2025 is midnight on Wednesday 15 January 2025. See Primary school places for more information on how to apply for a place.

Our online payment services and 24 hour telephone payment line will be unavailable on Tuesday 14 January 2025 due to essential system maintenance. You will not be able to make a payment during this time.

Welfare Rights training courses

Our training helps you build skills and knowledge in the social security benefits and tax credits system. The goal of our rights-based training is to improve the financial position of residents by giving advisers the tools to support them to maximise their income.

We deliver a variety of benefit training courses through Advice in County Durham (AiCD). AiCD brings together statutory and voluntary services including all the main advice providers in the county. All our training is free to member organisations of Advice in County Durham.

Before you book

We provide online training, using Microsoft Teams. To attend training you will need to:

use a laptop or desktop computer (not a mobile phone or tablet) with a microphone and video camera/webcam and a broadband internet connection fast enough to videoconference
use Microsoft Teams, either the desktop application or in a web browser
accept the invitation to the Teams meeting and join the meeting by the designated start time
join the meeting with video enabled (your mic should be muted except when speaking)
have an application capable of displaying PDF files (e.g. Adobe Acrobat Reader)