Session 2 of the next Shetland Partnership Plan process to take place
Work is set to continue this month to shape the next Shetland Partnership Plan.
Around 70 people from across Shetland's public sector, Community Councils and Community Development Organisations will sit down together this month to continue shaping the next Shetland Partnership Plan – the strategic framework that will set the islands' collective direction from 2028/29 onwards.
Session 2 takes place on Thursday 25 June at Mareel, Lerwick. The theme is inequalities - one of the three interconnected challenges, alongside population and climate change, that the next Shetland Partnership Plan will need to address.
Shetland's headline statistics - employment rates, average wages, healthy life expectancy - paint a broadly positive picture. But look closer, and a different reality emerges for a significant number of people living and working here. This session examines the evidence behind that gap: the cost of living pressures, fuel poverty, in-work hardship, and the geographic and social factors that shape people's lives in ways that don't always show up in the numbers.
The Session will be led by Chris Sewell, Chief Inspector and Local Area Commander for Shetland, Police Scotland, and Dr Susan Laidlaw, Director of Public Health, NHS Shetland, who will present the evidence and facilitate discussion around what it means for Shetland - and what needs to change.
The full evidence paper and a shorter summary are available to download below.