Iriss

Born into care in Scotland

Insight 76

This Insight explores the evidence on children ‘born into care’, with a focus on the relevance for social work practice in Scotland. It details the characteristics of babies and their families, considers how many parents experience the removal of more than one child, and draws attention to the very low numbers of infants placed with brothers and sisters.

CSWO Annual Report Summary

2022/23

This summary report provides an analysis and overview of the Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) 2022-2023 Annual Reports. These annual reports are based around a reporting template and give a general overview of the social work landscape in Scotland.

Social work’s relationship with the PREVENT duty

Insight 74

This Insight examines the underlying assumptions within radicalisation policy, and aims to encourage discussion around the understanding of their influence upon practice, and to help practitioners consider ways to uphold anti-oppressive and anti-racist social work values.

Leadership in social work

Reporting on research to explore the current practice context of social work leadership in Scotland, through the perspectives of social workers from across the profession, with the aim of better understanding how Social Work Scotland and its partners, including Iriss, can support developing and existing leaders in future…

The Adult Support and Protection National Large Scale Investigation Framework

This framework offers a set of processes and principles that will be helpful to those conducting and/or participating in Large Scale Investigations. To help think through how these processes and principles can be realised, the framework also contains practice steps that can be considered as hallmarks of good practice…

Adult Support and Protection: everyone's business

Adult Support and Protection (ASP) is designed to support and protect adults who are unable to safeguard themselves, their property and their rights. The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (ASPA) both defines and provides the legislation framework for all of this work. This report aims to raise awareness of ASP and its important role and contribution in keeping ‘adults at risk’ safe…

SCOPE stories

Transforming complex care

This resource describes a project undertaken by Iriss and the SCOPE team, part of Perth & Kinross Health & Social Care Partnership (HSCP). Iriss and the SCOPE team worked together in 2022 to understand the difference the SCOPE approach is making to the team and those it supports. We captured stories from the SCOPE team members and other partner services about how SCOPE is different, why this matters and the ways in which this is transformational for people with complex needs.