Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 June 2024

The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for April to June 2024. This includes annual statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis grants from 2013, as well as quarterly breakdowns from 2019.


During April to June 2024, decisions were made on 20,390 Community Care Grant applications (Table 12) with an acceptance rate of 46% (Table 14 and Chart 6) and decisions were made on 63,395 Crisis Grant applications (Table 15) with an acceptance rate of 61% (Table 17 and Chart 7).

Chart 6: Community Care Grant and Crisis Grant acceptance rates – Quarterly

This chart shows the time series of the proportion of CCG and Crisis applications within the processing time target per quarter since April 2019.

Chart 6
Local authorities awarded 9,480 Community Care Grants, 1,880 (17%) fewer than April to June 2023 (Table 13, Chart 7) and 38,765 Crisis Grants, 1,110 (3%) fewer than April to June 2023 (Table 16, Chart 7).

Chart 7: Number of Scottish Welfare Fund Awards – Scotland – Monthly
This chart shows the time series of the number of CCG and Crisis awards per quarter since April 2019.
Chart 7

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