Delivery Plan Implementation and Next Steps

The first Delivery Plan for the Shetland Partnership Plan ran from 2019 to 2022.  Following a review at the beginning of 2023, a new Delivery Plan for 2023 to 2028 was approved by the Management and Leadership Team (MLT) of the Shetland Partnership. 

This Delivery Plan focuses on developing and delivering on Shetland’s Place-Based Approach; collaborative working between partners and communities, at a local level, to identify and deliver solutions for improved outcomes for those communities, whilst also delivering on Shetland’s key priority areas:

• Inclusive Growth (now called EmPowering Shetland)
• Mitigating and Adapting to Climate Change (now called Climate Conscious Shetland)
• Compassion (now called Compassionate Shetland)
• Person-Centred Support

These priority areas are four significant improvement programmes for the Shetland Partnership.  

During 2023/24 MLT have provided strategic leadership to the refinement of these programmes and have become the Programme Board for Shetland’s Place-Based Approach.

In an environment of ever challenging problems, a place-based approach enables complex issues to be resolved by working collaboratively to bring knowledge, experience and creativity.  Using place as a lens to look through can help understand the interconnections and relationships between issues, ensuring that decisions are made holistically and with the community at the heart.

The Shetland Partnership Network came together on four occasions during the year:

• to inform Shetland’s Place-Based Approach;
• a study visit to a Peatland Restoration site, to learn about the impact of degraded peatlands on Shetland’s carbon emissions and for a wider conversation about Climate Change;
• to input into the Delivery Plan; and
• to input into Shetland’s Energy Strategy, a key document for both Inclusive Growth and Climate Change.