From 1st October 2024 to 31st March 2025, the Household Support Fund provided targeted financial aid to households at risk of economic crisis. The dataset shows how Leicester City Council distributed this Department for Work and Pensions-administered fund to city residents for food, energy and water bills, and essential items.
Use Cases
- Analyze local authority welfare spending patterns based on the fund distribution data.
- Assess the geographic or demographic targeting of economic crisis support based on the spend criteria.
- Track the allocation of funds for specific needs like food or energy bills based on the described support categories.
Strengths
- Covers a specific six-month operational phase from October 2024 to March 2025.
- Data is tied to concrete spend criteria provided by the Department for Work and Pensions.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Leicester City Council's jurisdiction.
Provenance
- Source
- Leicester City Council
- Collection Method
- Administered by local authorities based on DWP criteria.
- Time Range
- 2024-10-01 to 2025-03-31
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-17 11:35:34.820588; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Leicester City, UK