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Publication - Statistics

Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 September 2024

Last updated
3 February 2025 - see all updates
Directorate
Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic
Communities and third sector

The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for June to September 2024. This includes quarterly statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants from 2019.

Supporting documents

More than a third of awards have been made to households with children, and this has been the case in almost every quarter. In the most recent quarter, 36% of awards went to households with children (Tables 37 to 39, Chart 13).

Chart 13: Household types of households receiving funds from the Scottish Welfare Fund to June 2024
This is a chart showing a time series of the distribution of SWF funds split by household type since April 2019.
SWF Jan 25 Chart 13
 

First published
28 January 2025
Last updated
3 February 2025 - show all updates

  1. A correction to the text of 'Expenditure and Budgets' was made to correct figures referring to table 26, and chart 9 was also updated; Highland and Na-h Eileanan Siar were showing slightly inaccurate figures.

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