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, local authorities processed 93% of Community Care Grant applications within the target time of 15 working days (Table 8, Chart 4), and processed 98% of Crisis Grant applications within the target time of the end of the next working day (Table 10, Chart 5).
One local authority processed fewer than 80% of Community Care Grant applications on time: Shetland (50%) (Table 9), and one processed fewer than 90% of Crisis Grant applications on time: Shetland (71%) (Table 11).
It should be noted that these figures take into account the time of receipt of applications for the first time. If an application is made after 16:45, it is treated as having been received on the next working day, which gives a fairer impression of processing. This change has been applied retrospectively.
It is possible that cases are currently missing from the dataset used to produce this publication due to delays in processing or late returns, or due to cases being awarded in principle or ‘pending’ on local authority systems. It is therefore possible that estimates of the proportion processed within target times could change for the latest quarter in subsequent publications.
Chart 4: Initial Processing Times for Community Care Grants – Quarterly
This chart shows time series of the proportion of CCG applications within the processing time target per quarter since April 2021.
Chart 5: Initial Processing Times for Crisis Grants – Quarterly
This chart shows time series of the proportion of CCG applications within the processing time target per quarter since April 2021.