Support Talking-up Scotland's work to counter the lies and get you the facts, daily, at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/checkout/help-talking-up-scotland-tell-truth-about-scotland/payment/nBQxjVzq/details
Professor John Robertson OBA
From STV, yesterday, the above and:
Scotland’s largest mental health charity has unveiled plans for a £10m network of walk-in support centres.
I searched for – ‘BBC Scotland first walk-in mental health hub‘ and got the same STV report, the Daily Record, the Herald, the Glasgow Times and even the Rangers Charity Foundation covering it.
The reports are not actually that SNP-friendly but BBC Scotland?
Just this:
What’s going wrong with our mental health? Martin Geissler and Laura Miller ask why so many of us are struggling with mental health problems.
I’m tempted to answer for any loyal viewers there.
Why are they ignoring this news on hubs?
Same reason as this in June 2025?
As NHS Scotland treats 91.6% of nearly 5 000 children and adolescents with mental health concerns, on time, BBC just ignore it and STV lets a campaign group headline the 4% waiting too long
From Public Health Scotland 4 June 2025:
91.6% of people started treatment within 18 weeks of referral, which is an increase from 90.6% for the previous quarter and from 86.0% for the same quarter ending March 2024. The Scottish Government standard states that 90% of children and young people should start treatment within 18 weeks of referral to CAMHS. The chart below illustrates performance in relation to this target over the past 4 years and shows that the target was first achieved in quarter ending December 2024.
4,674 children and young people were on a waiting list to start treatment in CAMHS at quarter ending March 2025 which is an increase of 7.0% (305) compared to 4,369 in the previous quarter.
BBC Scotland seem to have given up trying to find a way to turn the story into a negative and are just ignoring it. STV, however, have:
‘Extremely alarming’: 164 children waiting over a year for mental health care
and 10 paragraphs of negative comment fed by “The Scottish Children’s Services Coalition (SCSC), an alliance of leading providers,” before giving us the published figures. there are only 4 members of the SCSC.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
“Why don’t BBC Scotland want to tell you about Scotland’s first walk-in mental health hubs”?
Is the answer to that question not way way too easy ?
Liz S
LikeLiked by 2 people
Based on a web search and a search of Companies House data, I suspect there are now only three active company members of the Scottish Children’s Services Coalition (SCSC). These are Falkland House School, Spark of Genius and Young Foundations.
Notwithstanding these chosen names, all are limited companies. And more, based on Companies House searches, all are part of big commercial groups operating UK-wide and in one case for certain, internationally.
The Companies House records – including information on ‘persons with significant control’ – reveal very, very complex corporate structures – can’t emphasise the degree of complexity enough! Levels of group profitability, payment of dividends and role of private equity investors (in at least one of the three) are all available for inspection.
LikeLiked by 2 people