Annual Report 2024/25 - Delivery Plan Implementation and Next Steps

Compassionate Shetland

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Compassionate Shetland is an improvement initiative and movement to embed kindness, empathy and dignity across Shetland.

In 2024/25, progress included:

  • Running Human Library CPD sessions with 50 staff and leaders, hearing directly from people with lived experience of stigma.
  • Developing the Mair dan Wirds campaign, and working towards promotion of compassion and tackling stigma through schools, community posters and digital resources.
  • Delivering stigma awareness and compassion training, supporting more empathetic and inclusive services.
  • Promoting compassionate leadership and workforce development, embedding care and emotional intelligence in organisational practice.
  • Engaging with children, families and services through interviews, focus groups and workshops, ensuring lived experience shaped the work.

Next steps, moving into 2025/26, include showcasing progress through Shetland Partnership Network sessions, expanding campaign resources, and developing a network of compassion champions across services, employers and communities – in particular looking at areas where there is less likely to be engagement or awareness of the work.