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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 September 2023

Last updated: 4 March 2024 - see all updates
Directorate: Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic: Communities and third sector

Information on the Scottish Welfare Fund to 30 September 2023.

Since April 2013, there have been 33,575 Tier 1 reviews for Community Care Grants and 48,555 reviews for Crisis Grants (Table 33). Fewer than half of decisions were revised for Community Care Grants (47%) and Crisis Grants (41%) (Table 34).

Since April 2013, 76% of Tier 1 reviews for Community Care Grants have been made within the 15 working day target, while 87% of Tier 1 reviews for Crisis Grants have been made within the two working day target (Table 35).

First published: 30 January 2024
Last updated: 4 March 2024 - show all updates
All updates: 4 March 2024
A transposition error was found in table 34d which meant that the contents of the table were displaced down by a blank row, and the total was omitted. This has now been rectified.

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