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Iriss will shortly be conducting a national sector-wide workforce survey to find out how social workers experience racism and what anti-racist actions are being taken to eliminate it…
News 11 Sep
Iriss is proud to announce the launch of the ASPire Hub. It’s a place where everyone working in Adult Support and Protection can find and share resources.
News 28 Aug
A lunchtime webinar exploring how we meet the promise’s vision for how we care for experienced children and young people in Scotland's rural areas.
Events 26 Aug
There’s a lot of work that goes into preparing to host a social work student on placement in a third sector organisation, from communicating with universities,…
Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements 14 Oct
Iriss is working with a mix of strategic and local partners to co-design a better and more joined up approach across Scotland to hoarding…
Supporting people who hoard 09 Sep
Back in 2009, I was a fresh faced researcher, working as an intern in the Office of the Chief Researcher in the Scottish Government. I was at an event listening to…
Inside Iriss 27 Aug
While planning the work for 2023/24, we saw that there’s plenty of support for improvement (doing something better) in social work and social care support but a lack of dedicated focus on evidence-informed innovation…
Reports 2024
It’s easy to get bogged down in worries for the future, feel like everything is against us and forget to see the whole board. There can be no change or innovation without hope and ambition…
This year we will continue our core work of helping create the conditions for great social work and social care support to flourish. Our work plan was devised with feedback and input from voices across the sector…