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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

During July to September 2024, decisions were made on 19,665 Community Care Grant applications  with an acceptance rate of 45% (Tables 12 and 14, and Chart 6) and decisions were made on 60,115 Crisis Grant applications with an acceptance rate of 62% (Tables 15 and 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.
SWF Jan 25 Chart 6


Local authorities awarded 8,795 Community Care Grants, 1,825 (17%) fewer than July to September 2023 (Table 13, Chart 7) and 37,040 Crisis Grants, 4,715 (11%) fewer than July to September 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.
SWF Jan 25 Chart 7

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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