The Bereavement Charter for Scotland describes a vision for how we can all work together to ensure people who are experiencing bereavement are supported.
The Bereavement Charter for Scotland covers a lot of issues. You may find it helpful to highlight the key points that feel of relevance to your organisation.
If this seems helpful you can develop your own Local Bereavement Charter for your organisation.
Working with others to create your own Local Bereavement Charter can help:
Bringing people from your organisation together to develop a Local Bereavement Charter can raise awareness of the impact of bereavement and help people understand how they can help. It will also help you to create a charter that has credibility and resonance within your organisation
To get started, you could do an online survey, or bring people together in a focus group.
Choose issues that matter to the people you work with and use words that feel right in your context.
You could ask people questions like:
- if you've been bereaved, what support did you want from your manager, the organisation and colleagues?
- what support do you think our organisation can give to staff members who are bereaved?
- what are the good things about our organisational culture and what could be improved?
