{"id":443142,"date":"2026-01-28T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T14:59:11","slug":"aberdeen-mental-health-charity-cleared-over-inappropriate-spending-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443142\/","title":{"rendered":"Aberdeen mental health charity cleared over &#8216;inappropriate spending&#8217; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">MHA provided various services including counselling, work in schools and community projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity had said funding had been reduced or withdrawn and rising operational costs including a &#8220;significant increase&#8221; in National Insurance contributions led to the closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In August last year, the OSCR said allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdj2z0z3ewko\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;inappropriate expenditure&#8221;<\/a> were being probed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation has now said in a statement: &#8220;OSCR is satisfied from the information we received during our inquiry that the actions of the charity trustees were consistent with the general duties required under Scottish charity law, and that there was no inappropriate financial management which led to the charity becoming insolvent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;As a result, we have closed this inquiry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MHA provided various services including counselling, work in schools and community projects. The charity had said funding had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[64,63,137,514,515],"class_list":{"0":"post-443142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}