Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: annual update 2023-24
The annual update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for 2023-24. This includes annual statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis grants from 2013, as well as quarterly breakdowns from 2018.
These maps highlight datazones in Scotland which are ranked in the top 20% of SWF expenditure per person since 2018. The comparison is made to the equivalent 20% most deprived datazones as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020.
Given that SWF funds are targeted at people on low incomes, and/or people receiving benefits, then it would be expected for there to be a strong relationship between the two sets of datazones. The maps confirm this. Many datazones are coloured purple, indicating membership of both groups.
The blue datazones highlight relatively high levels of SWF support for less deprived areas, although many of these are close to more deprived areas. These differences may indicate local issues and variation in local authority delivery priorities.
Figure 1: Maps comparing top 20% of datazones receiving SWF payments per person since 2018 versus the top 20% most deprived datazones according to the SIMD
These maps cover Scotland as a whole, and also focus more closely on large urban areas to enhance local understanding. The highlight areas are datazones which are ranked in the most deprived and/or received the most SWF money per person.
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