Publications

The purpose of this Counter Fraud Strategy is to explain how we intend to mitigate the threat of fraud against our organisation.

Our key objective is to pay the right people the right money at the right time. Careful consideration has been given to minimising the risk of error occurring, and to identify and quickly resolve where error does occur.

This Official Statistics publication presents quarterly data on the Social Security Scotland’s workforce. The statistics show: • numbers of directly employed staff by category • numbers of non-directly employed workers by category • staff sickness absence • staff diversity information • location information Quarterly updates to the tables in the publication are released in March, June, September, and December. The latest period is to the end of September 2023, published in December 2023.

As a Public Body we are required to assess the impact of our activity. This report contains information on the Equality Impact Assessment conducted on Social Security Scotland’s Internal Knowledge Management Hub. Social Security Scotland is looking to procure a platform to store and manage agency guidance needed by staff from the provided Invotra. The Equality Impact Assessment has considered the potential effects of the project and how it impacts on groups with protected characteristics.

Information on applications and payments for Best Start Grant from 10 December 2018 to 30 September 2023 and Best Start Foods from 12 August 2019 to 30 September 2023.

This report presents the results from the Social Security Scotland Five Family Payment Client Survey.

High level information on Scottish Child Payment, including statistics on the number of applications received, processed and authorised, as well as the value of payments made up to up to 30 September 2023.