
Welcome to the News page for the Students' Union Advice Centre Welfare Department.
This section is currently being updated - please check back later.
Please return often to these pages for news items concerning:
- Accommodation issues
- Funding issues
- Financial matters
- Matters affecting international students
- Matters affecting students with disabilities
- Welfare Benefits
- Consumer issues
- Legal issues affecting students
We are currently preparing welfare advice that can be accessed from our webpages.
If you can't find the information that you need on this website and can pop into the Advice Centre (Ground Floor, Edinburgh Building) there are a range of helpful leaflets for you to browse.

Rock donates £2.2m to charities
The charitable arm of Northern Rock gives more than £2m to organisations in the North East and Cumbria.
Six are charged after dawn raids
Police charge six people with theft and drugs offences following a series of raids across Sunderland.
Killed cyclist not wearing helmet
A pedal cyclist who was not wearing a helmet dies two weeks after being knocked off his bike.