A minor anomaly was identified in the code used to produce the number of children and clients actively benefitting from Scottish Child Payment as of 31 March 2025, reported in Tables 9-14.
Analysis shows that the number of children activity benefitting from Scottish Child Payment as of 31 March 2025 was underreported by 0.2%. There was no impact on the trend for Scottish Child Payment caseload over time and no impact to any other tables.
The next set of statistics to be published on 26 August 2025 will include minor revisions to previous caseload statistics in Table 9. An explanation of the changes will be also be included in the Social Security Scotland - Data and Methodology Changes document at this time.
The number of children actively benefitting from Scottish Child Payment as of 31 March 2025 broken down by intermediate zone 2022 codes and child age-band was published on the Scottish Government Open Data Platform. This information can be found at the following link: Scottish Government's Open Data Platform.
Recently, Scottish Government's Open Data Platform have been experiencing a number of issues. To ensure the statistics are available at 09:30 on 27 May 2025, the 'Scottish Child Payment Child Caseload March 2025' CSV file containing this same information is also published on this page, and can be found below.