{"id":391610,"date":"2026-04-10T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:00:07","slug":"redundancies-at-aberdeen-counselling-charity-after-funding-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/391610\/","title":{"rendered":"Redundancies at Aberdeen counselling charity after funding cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cairns said it saw a surge in demand for its services after the closure of fellow charity Mental Health Aberdeen (MHA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It resulted in it cutting the number of free sessions it offered to people by half \u2013 from 20 to 10 \u2013 because so many had been added to its waiting list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Esslemont said: &#8220;One of the difficult decisions that we have had to make is to actually close our referrals to ensure we weren&#8217;t holding people on the waiting list for too long when we realised that potentially we might not be able to continue delivering the service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aberdeen Health and Social Care Partnership said it was saddened by the closure of Cairns&#8217; premises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson: &#8220;We recognise that a range of mental health advice and counselling services remains available in Aberdeen. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership carefully considers how best to support the local population, ensuring people are clearly signposted to the most appropriate service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cairns said it saw a surge in demand for its services after the closure of fellow charity Mental&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-391610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}