child benefit/child tax credits when child is at part time college

[bongoboy]

Hi

Does anyone know if you can get any child benefits/child tax credit if my son goes part time at college in September.
I believe you only get it if they are at school/college a minimum of 12 hours, he will be doing just under the 12 hours per week.
This means i get nothing at all from the above benefits, my husband works but i will loose about £80-90 a month, and fully support him with the education/travel/ clothes etc, just wondered if any one else has experienced this. (He is 17 years old)

many thanks

[bongoboy]

thanks redhelen

the college is a small branch of another big college in our county and there is hardly anything to choose from, the other courses won't benefit him at all (hair, beauty woodwork and brick laying) , his main course (accounts) is free due to his age, the other course we are paying for as its called a short course and they are not free, but both don't quite make 12 hours, he wishes that they did A level maths but they don't do anything like that.

thanks again

[bongoboy]

redhelen

We live on an island and theres only the small college, he hopefully will be enrolling with in september for the accounts and sage or the academy where he is at the moment (6th form) is all we have here, the small colleges has a main site but is about 30-40 miles away. He wants to do the accounts as that is what he wants to do for a career, if he stays at the academy he will have to do 3 A level courses - no less, so this means he cannot go to the college for accounts as some of the lessons would be on the same day as the accounts course at the college.

I wish he could do the courses he wants under one roof it would make life for him much easier. The course choices here are so limited, i just wish we could move to another area.

many thanks redhelen for your replies