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Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics: update to 31 December 2025
The quarterly update of Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics for October to December 2025. This includes quarterly statistics on Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants from 2021 onwards.
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Since the scheme began in April 2013, most funds have been directed to Community Care Grants in almost every quarter (January peaks in Crisis Grants generally being the exceptions), although, even before the advent of the Covid pandemic, there was a general increase in the proportion of money being advanced via Crisis Grants (Chart 14).
Chart 14: Proportion of SWF spend by scheme – Quarterly
This chart shows the time series of the proportion of expenditure going to each SWF scheme since April 2021.