Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 30 September 2025
The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for July to September 2025. This includes quarterly statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants from 2021 onwards.
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During July to September 2025, decisions were made on 19,160 Community Care Grant applications with an acceptance rate of 53% (Tables 12 and 14, and Chart 6) and decisions were made on 61,080 Crisis Grant applications with an acceptance rate of 65% (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 rate of CCG and Crisis awards per quarter since April 2021.
Local authorities awarded 10,195 Community Care Grants, 1,340 (15%) more than July to September 2024 (Table 13, Chart 7) and 39,880 Crisis Grants, 2,745 (7%) more than July to September 2024 (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 2021.