PKC Welfare Rights Team

Good morning Perth and Kinross 🥰

Yesterday we delivered Welfare Rights and Welfare Fund training to our Partners at Broke Not Broken at our LochLeven Campus.

A fantastic community support team.

Thank you for having us and we'll see you soon 🥰

Good afternoon Perth and Kinross!

We have been receiving a lot of enquiries about the Oil Heating Funding announced by Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government has announced that Advice Direct Scotland will be administering the payments.

We will update the page as we know more.

In the meantime and as always if you, or someone you know, is struggling with the cost of living then please get in touch to find out if you could be missing out on entitlements.

You can refer online @ www.pkc.gov.uk/wrt or via phone on 01738 476900 (option 1).

Contact the Welfare Rights Team - Perth & Kinross Council Most people claim benefits at some point in their lives depending on their circumstances. The welfare benefits system can be complicated and it is not always clear what benefits, if any, someone may be entitled to.

Good afternoon Perth and Kinross,

Our work with the schools in this specific project will begin from Wednesday, 1st April and the schools directly involved include the following:

Goodlyburn Primary School
Inchview Primary School
Riverside Primary School
Letham Primary School
Tulloch Primary School
Moncrieffe Primary School
Rattray Primary School
Coupar Angus Primary School
Alyth Primary School
Stanley Primary School
Breadalbane Primary School

This additional funding does two things. It provides more capacity to target these schools but it also gives us capacity to work with any other schools in the P&K area to ensure that all of our households with children have access to advice.

Debt and welfare advice will be made available to families at eleven schools around Perth and Kinross from Spring 2026 via funding from the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Practice Accelerator Fund, announced this week by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Shirley-Ann Somerville MSP, during a visit to Tulloch Primary School.

The schools chosen for the project were selected on the basis of low take-up of benefits by eligible parents. The debt and welfare adviser will work within the Council’s Welfare Rights Team.

Councillor John Rebbeck, Learning and Families Convener and Depute Council Leader said: "In Perth and Kinross we have long recognised the significance of the poverty gap on children's attainment and achievement and have been working with our partners in the Perth and Kinross Poverty Task Force to enhance the help and support available to families affected by poverty so that children and young people can achieve to their fullest potential.

"The announcement of the successful bid to the Scottish Government's Child Poverty Accelerator Fund this week enables us to develop those supports further, with staff in our Welfare Rights Team liaising directly with families through schools around Perth and Kinross. I am very pleased that our bid has been successful and look forward to seeing how we can make even more of a difference in our communities."

For further information about the project, visit https://www.gov.scot/news/investment-to-help-children-and-families/.