Publications

Executive Advisory Body Tuesday 18 March 2025

This mainstreaming equality report outlines our long-term, strategic approach to making sure that equality, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our culture and operations. Mainstreaming is an effective way of making sure that the whole institution is meeting its public-sector equality duty. In Scotland, there is a specific duty within the legislation for public authorities to mainstream equality across their activities.

This is the publication of Funeral Support Payment statistics. It covers payments made to 31 March 2025. It includes analysis of payments by client age, local authority, qualifying benefit, application method and month. It also includes breakdown of applications by outcome and month, channel, and processing times.

This publication provides statistics on applications and payments for Job Start Payment up to 31 March 2025.

Information on Scottish Child Payment, including statistics on the number of applications received and processed, payments, and the number of children actively benefitting from Scottish Child Payment.

Information on applications and payments for Best Start Grant from 10 December 2018 to 31 March 2025 and Best Start Foods from 12 August 2019 to 31 March 2025.

This report presents the results from the Social Security Scotland Five Family Payment Client Survey for the period from October 2024 to March 2025.