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‘Healing Pitch’, authentic voices and improving practice

Monday 6 October 2025

At our second Iriss Skills Session, Dr Emily Whyte shared the creative and multi-disciplinary approach to working alongside care

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Creative (re)presentation for social work education and practice

Thursday 2 October 2025

I feel incredibly grateful to have worked with and co-written a play called Healing Pitch alongside four care-experienced young people as part of my P

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Adult Support and Protection belongs everywhere

Tuesday 16 September 2025

At the start of the summer, I wrote a blog about a new Iriss project I’m co-leading, all about professional curiosity in

Adult Support and Protection

Leading innovation: Join our Board!

Tuesday 9 September 2025

We’re looking for curious, thoughtful people to join our Board.

Inside Iriss

Neurodiversity: the clue is in the name

Wednesday 3 September 2025

As neurodiverse people, it has been a joy to see the recent rise in awareness and acceptance of how different brains work.

Inside Iriss

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Writing an anti-racist survey as a white person

Tuesday 19 August 2025

While it seems like it should be an indisputable statement that we are currently living in a society that is riddled with inequalities and was created by unequal power structures, this has become an…

Projects

Colourful illustration of path winding across rolling hills

Bridging distance

Tuesday 8 July 2025

Disabilities – Pathways and Perspectives is a resource. The hope is that it becomes a prompt for reflection, in and out of work, whatever each reader’s responsibilities, beliefs, uncertainties, stage…

Standalone projects

Maps and mountains

Monday 30 June 2025

The map is not the territory The last time I tried to climb a mountain I failed spectacularly. It was a warm August at the foot of the mountain, and a freezing January higher up.

Inside Iriss

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Curiouser and curiouser

Tuesday 24 June 2025

Iriss is embarking on a new project to find out all about professional curiosity across the public protection agenda - and we’re looking for interested folk to help us out.

Projects

Writing with, not about

Thursday 19 June 2025

A group of practitioners from the Transitions Team in Scottish Borders Council asked us if we could support them with a shift in writing culture.

Projects

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Wisdom in the difference

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Over the past few weeks, we have had the chance to listen to practitioners from across Scotland reflect on safeguarding and child protection…

Child Protection: update to the National Risk Framework

Call for Learning Partners

Tuesday 17 June 2025

We’re looking for third sector learning partners in using a new Iriss resource developed to supp

Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements

Write Right About Me

Thursday 5 June 2025

Iriss are so pleased to share this guest piece, written by Mim Smith from Aberdeen City Council and Theresa Lillis from the Open University; sharing their work in supporting professionals to write

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Effects of Clutter or Hoarding on people affected by it

Thursday 15 May 2025

One current estimate is that 2-5% of the population has issues with clutter/hoarding, but this is hard to estimate as there is so much shame for someone admitting they have a clutter or hoarding is

Supporting people who hoard

Groups of people discussing the resource for TSOs

This Must Be The Place(ment)

Thursday 8 May 2025

After working on it for a year, our resource to support social work placements in third sector organisations is here!

Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements

Finding a Focus

Monday 14 April 2025

Project planning is full of decisions to make. What partners do you need? What will success look like? How responsive can your plan be to new information?

Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements

Practitioner Research with NQSWs: Inspiration from practice

Wednesday 2 April 2025

Recently we were invited back to North Ayrshire to meet some Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) and talk about practitioner research. This was a follow up to a session we ran in 2023 where we…

Reimagining social work practice

Launching a new resource for third sector social work student placements

Tuesday 18 March 2025

We’ve been quiet on the Voices & Visions blog updates recently while we’ve been working away on developing our new resource to support social work student placements in third sector organisations…

Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements

Reflections on the MHO Conference 2025

Tuesday 4 March 2025

On February 25th, we had the opportunity to attend and present at the Mental Health Officer (MHO) Conference, Reigniting Our Resilience: Informing and Future-Proofing the MHO Workforce, held at The

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An update from the Hoarding Taskforce

Monday 17 February 2025

2025 has started at a fast pace with Hoarding Taskforce activities.

Supporting people who hoard

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