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…
Thursday 27 March 2025
What are we doing about Professional Curiosity in the Scottish Borders?
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…
Monday 10 March 2025
Seven minutes might not feel like much, but it’s long enough to learn something new. That’s the thinking behind seven-minute briefings, several of which now sit on the ASPire Hub.
Monday 17 February 2025
2025 has started at a fast pace with Hoarding Taskforce activities.
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Following the recommendations by the Independent Review of Adult Social Care, the Scottish Government
Thursday 21 November 2024
Last year we worked with Future Pathways, Voices for a Better Future and the Scottish Recovery Network to look at how we might co-design peer support for care survivors supported by Future Pathways
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Large Scale Investigations – or LSIs – can be a knotty issue for all involved. LSIs are a specific type of Adult Support and Protection intervention that is triggered when there’s more than one adult…
Monday 18 November 2024
“I wanted that first placement to be something that I would be like ‘okay is social work the right career for me, is this the right job for me?" - Reflection from an early career social w
Thursday 14 November 2024
Earlier this month, as part of a project we are working on in the ethical commissioning space, we met with a team of care home managers.
Tuesday 12 November 2024
I have now been in post for a little over two years as the National Adult Support and Protection Coordinator – which I find very hard to believe, it has completely flown by!
Wednesday 6 November 2024
Since my colleague and I started working with a local authority adult social work team, it’s been inspiring to see the team’s dedication and thoughtful approach to making a difference in their serv
Thursday 17 October 2024
We published the quality improvement framework (QIF) on 15 October 2024.
Monday 14 October 2024
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, meeting with students and their tutor
Monday 16 September 2024
The revised Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007: Code of Pract
Monday 9 September 2024
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…
Wednesday 28 August 2024
We are delighted to see the development of the ASPire Hub, which launches today (28 August).
Friday 23 August 2024
Having been working on Voice and Visions for nearly six months, it is safe to say we have heard a lot about the third sector social work student placement world; from third sector representatives,
Wednesday 17 July 2024
I have a confession to make, I am a commissioning geek.
Wednesday 3 July 2024
A few weeks ago, I headed out to Fife to round off our project with Abbotsford Care. The train journey across the Forth and through the East Coast countryside is a perfect setting for reflection.
