Launch of co-production project planner
Resource that focuses on putting ideas into action. You don’t need to be an expert in co-production prior to planning a project.
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on 5 Jan 2018
Michelle Drumm
Child protection: listening to and learning from parents
An informal discussion was held at Serenity Cafe in Edinburgh on the subject. Stuart Muirhead from Iriss offers his reflections on the discussion, which was chaired by Maggie Mellon.
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on 8 Dec 2017
People seek a life, not a service
Kerry Musselbrook from Iriss shares her thoughts on the Our Shared Ambition event which was held in September 2017.
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on 5 Dec 2017
How much do you value SSKS?
SSKS provides access to thousands of online full-text articles and e-books, as well as research databases, evidence summaries and more.
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on 5 Dec 2017
It's Co-production Week 2017
As part of celebrating Co-production Week 2017, Josie Vallely (Project Manger at Iriss) reflects on the potential of co-production to distribute power.
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on 23 Nov 2017
What the public think about social services
The Social Work Services Strategic Forum has published research on what the public think about Scottish social services and why.
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on 14 Nov 2017
Scottish Social Services Awards 2018
The Scottish Social Services Awards 2018 are now officially open.
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on 7 Nov 2017
Can we pick your brain?
As valued stakeholders of Iriss, we would really appreciate your insight and advice as we plan our work for 2018/19.
To help ensure our work plan responds to the needs and priorities of the workforce, we want to know more about your current priority areas and key issues.
Are there gaps in skills, knowledge, evidence and tools that you would you like to see filled? How might we help with that? To help us understand your priorities, we invite you to answer three questions.
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on 3 Nov 2017
Integrated Care Matters webinar series
We're really pleased to be supporting The International Foundation for Integrated Care's (IFIC) second series of free webinars on people-centred integrated care in practice. The series will focus on active and healthy ageing and preventing and managing frailty.
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on 1 Nov 2017
Updated social media guidance
The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) has recently updated its social media guidance for the workforce. It's great to see and is welcomed by Iriss given that we've been promoting the use of social media for learning and development purposes.
In a recent Third Force news article, Anna Fowlie, Chief Executive at SSSC speaks of the benefits:
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on 23 Oct 2017
