{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2016/9780111030332",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare Funds (Scotland) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-funds-scotland-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Types of assistance",
  "text": "(1) Assistance out of a welfare fund may be provided by way of—\n(a) a crisis grant; or\n(b) a community care grant.\n(2) A crisis grant is assistance for the purposes referred to in paragraph (a) of section 2(1) of the Act.\n(3) A community care grant is assistance for the purposes referred to in paragraph (b) of section 2(1) of the Act.\n(4) A community care grant may be provided where it appears to the local authority that the grant will—\n(a) enable a qualifying individual who falls within paragraph (5) to establish or maintain a settled home and that without the grant there is a risk that the individual will not be able to do this;\n(b) enable a qualifying individual to maintain a settled home and that without the grant there is a risk of the individual needing to go into a care institution;\n(c) enable a qualifying individual to establish or maintain a settled home after being homeless or otherwise living an unsettled way of life;\n(d) enable a qualifying individual to maintain a settled home in a situation where that individual, or another individual in the same household, is facing exceptional pressure; or\n(e) assist a person to care for a qualifying individual who has been released from prison or a young offenders’ institution on temporary licence.\n(5) A qualifying individual falls within this paragraph if the individual—\n(a) has been in prison or a care institution for a period of at least 3 months, any part of which falls within the period of 9 months preceding the date of the fund application in question; or\n(b) has been in a care institution for two or more separate periods within that 9 month period.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2016/9780111030332/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:34:38.481130+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}