Launch of co-production project planner
What the public think about social services
Scottish Social Services Awards 2018
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.
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.
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:
Grow your Personal Learning Network
Today we launch a ‘Grow Your Personal Learning Network’ online course / workshop for social services staff.
It is for anyone interested in learning more about the web and social media to support them build personal and professional networks and promote lifelong learning.
The role of personal storytelling in practice
Insight 23
Culture change - what is it all about?
Creative storyboard based on Insight 17
Creative storyboard based on Insight 17 - Culture change in the public sector - written by Michelle Drumm (Iriss). It depicts how organisational culture change can be enabled and sustained and offers some evidence for how culture change happened in the Highlands in relation to the Getting it right for every child (GIRFEC) Highlands Pathfinder programme.