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Scottish Child Payment: high level statistics to 30 September 2023

On 11 January 2024, in response to an urgent request from users of our statistics, secondary analysis was published on the number of children actively benefitting from Scottish Child payment as of 30 September 2023 broken down by local authority area and Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 (quintile). The supplementary table is consistent with the statistics published on 28 November 2023.

On 24 January 2024, additional secondary analysis reporting the number of children actively benefitting from Scottish Child Payment as of 30 September 2023 broken down by intermediate zone and child age-band was published on Scottish Government’s Open Data Platform. This analysis is consistent with the statistics published on 28 November 2023, and can be found at the following link: statistics.gov.scot : Scottish Child Payment: Caseload.

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