What qualifications do advocates have?

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Morning,

What courses / qualifications would a sen advocate have in the UK? Or people that volunteer for sos - sen etc what courses would they of done?

I definitely don't want to be an advocate in regards to a job (I know they aren't regulated as such)

However, I think I do want to do qualifications in my spare time in order to help my boy in the long term - let's face it who know what the future holds! I used an advocate for my tribunal and I didn't rate them. So I thought id try and learn myself to be one step ahead of the LA.

I was thinking of doing ipsea 1-3 but didn't know if there was any better ones...

Thank you for any suggestions x

As you say advocates are unregulated. They don’t have to have any qualifications. Some have nothing, some an education/LA/social care background, some IPSEA’s courses, others having received training from solicitors/law firms and right through to those with a legal background.

For you, it sounds like IPSEA’s courses are a good place to start.

Thank you for your reply. I've paid for the first level £99 - I've got to complete it by 1 Jan 🤩