Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 June 2025
The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for April to June 2025. This includes quarterly statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants from 2021 onwards.
An Official Statistics in Development Publication for Scotland
These statistics are official statistics in development. Official statistics in development may be new or existing statistics, and will be tested with users, in line with the standards of trustworthiness, quality, and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics.
Scottish Government statistics are regulated by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR). OSR sets the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics that all producers of official statistics should adhere to.
More information about Scottish Government statistics is available on the Scottish Government website.
The Scottish Welfare Fund comprises Community Care Grants, which help people to live independently, and Crisis Grants, which provide a safety net in a disaster or emergency.
This publication provides information on the Scottish Welfare Fund for the latest quarter, 1 April to 30 June 2025. While this edition concentrates on the period from 2021-22 onward, it also contains information on budgets and expenditure from 1 April 2013, when the scheme began.
A supplementary spreadsheet containing 45 tables and 14 charts has also been published. Electronic versions of this document and accompanying tables and charts are available online.