Number of applications received for Community Care Grants and Crisis Grants for the Scottish Welfare Fund
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The total number of applications for the Scottish Welfare Fund, from April 2013 broken down by Local Authority & Financial Year.
The Scottish Welfare Fund is a national grant scheme run by Local Authorities, based on guidance from Scottish Ministers. The objectives of the scheme are to:
The Scottish Welfare Fund is a discretionary, budget-limited grant scheme that prioritises applications according to need, it provides grants that do not have to be repaid. There are 2 types of grants in the Scottish Welfare Fund - Crisis Grants and Community Care Grants. A Crisis Grants aims to help people, on a low income, who are in crisis because of a disaster or an emergency. A disaster is something like a fire or a flood. An emergency might be when money has been stolen. A Community Care Grant aims to:
More information on Scottish Welfare Fund Statistics can be found on the Scottish Government website.
These statistics are being published as experimental statistics. Experimental statistics are defined in the Code of Practice for Official Statistics as "new official statistics undergoing evaluation. They are published in order to involve users and stakeholders in their development and as a means to build in quality at an early stage." These statistics have not yet been assessed by the UK Statistics Authority. They have not been designated as National Statistics.
For any enquiries, please contact SocialSecurityStats@gov.scot
For the number of SWF applications, the counts have been rounded to the nearest 5 observations for Disclosure Control.
To ensure the data we receive is of the highest quality, we have asked all IT providers to implement the data specification as fully as possible. The data specification includes a number of validations. These validations are provided through an XSD schema and have also been implemented into the ProcXed system. Once Local Authorities submit data to the ProcXed system, a number of validations are triggered and warning messages appear. Local Authorities may re-submit data to fix these errors or they can comment them to explain why they believe the data to be valid. On submission of the data to the Scottish Government, each Local Authority is sent a detailed automatic report showing the contents of the data and any remaining errors.
To ensure sufficient data has been submitted, we cross check all submitted data with the informal monitoring returns submitted to the Scottish Government. The automatic reports sent to Local Authorities contain charts which allow them to easily see if there is a discrepancy between these two data sources.
For known data issues please see the full publication on the Scottish Government website.
Users should be aware that for January to March 2020 there are specific data quality issues with data from City of Edinburgh, Glasgow City and North Lanarkshire, which also affect Scotland level official statistics. These are described in the data quality section of the relevant publication. There may also be additional data quality issues due to the impacts of COVID-19, for example, details of applications/awards may not have been received due to processing delays and/or cases being ‘pending’ or ‘awarded in principle’ on local authority systems. We are working with specific local authorities to identify and resolve these errors.
Annual reports by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the Social Fund for the period prior to 1 April 2013 are available from the Department for Work and Pensions. The most recently available report can be found on the DWP website.
On 1 April 2013, the Department for Work and Pensions devolved the responsibility for Community Care Grants and Crisis Loans to the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and directly to English Local Authorities.
As a single national scheme covering the UK is no longer in operation, comparable statistics for other parts of the UK are not available.
Annual and quarterly data updates and commentary are published on the Scottish Government website.
Data are collected, validated and published in as timely manner as possible in accordance with the Statistics Code of Practice. Data are published quarterly (April, July, October, January) and can be found on the Scottish Government website.
Annual data (Published in July) will be available on statistics.gov.scot
Each updated publication of statistics will include revisions to figures for previous quarters, with more recent quarters being subject to a greater degree of revision than more distant ones. There are several reasons for this:
(i) the cuts of data received by Scottish Government each quarter will include retrospective changes to past applications. For example, where the actual amount spent on an item was different to the amount initially awarded, this expenditure will be updated in the new data cut.
(ii) the cuts of data received by Scottish Government only include information about applications that have at least reached the stage of having an initial decision made. Some applications may therefore be received by the Local Authority in one quarter and decided in the next quarter. Scottish Government would only receive details about these applications in the next quarter’s data cut, at which point the application will be added into the previous quarter’s application statistics retrospectively.
(iii) Tier 1 and Tier 2 reviews can lead to changes in final outcome and final award amount. Where a case has been reviewed, expenditure is assigned to the quarter of the initial decision rather than the review date.
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Scottish Welfare Fund Application Type
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| Collection | 2 |
| Component specification | 6 |
| Data set | 1 |
| Data structure definition | 1 |
| Observation | 990 |
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