After 2-3 years of 'shall I, shan't I?' and being depressed, DH has decided he wants to return to college and totally retrain - What does this mean survival wise? Pls help!

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Despite having in excess of 10 years experience in his field and being very loyal to his trade through thick and thin, DH has decided enough is enough, he is getting nowhere and wants to learn a new trade, hopefully where he can earn more money. In my opinion, it has been mildly depressing him for approx. 3 years and I am relieved he has finally seen it.

I stay at home to look after the kids (3 and another on the way) and he goes out to work. We are struggling now as everything goes up but DHs wages.

I have looked at various benefit calculators but none seem to have the option to select 'full time student' to see what help we could get to enable him to do this.
Can anyone help?

Thanks.

DH did this at 30. He retrained as a teacher. But I was in work and supported us. It was difficult TBH even with my salary. Would benefits fill the gap enough?

Is there no way he can go to night classes?

Is this any help or is it only for uni

or this one