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Care Visions workshop

Monday 24 June 2024

About the session This session (at the new Social Hub, highly recommended!) brought together a group of managers from Care Visions child

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Introducing Voices and Visions

Tuesday 18 June 2024

Along with our project partner, People Know How, we are beginning to look at social work student placements in the third sector; how they are now, and build

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

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People at the heart of positive change

Tuesday 18 June 2024

Introduction How can we mainstream the involvement of people with lived experience in social work and social care - to drive improvement, generate positive change, and d

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Inside an Iriss project

Monday 17 June 2024

You might have followed our work last year with Passion4Fusion, a community organisation working predominant

Working with African families

Finding hope

Wednesday 12 June 2024

With funding from the Scottish Government, Quarriers, Epilepsy Connections and Epilepsy Scotland worked with Iriss to develop

Standalone projects

Hidden issues

Tuesday 21 May 2024

Tina Laurie (University of the West of Scotland) reflects on the Rural Social Work Scotland Forum online conference that was held in early May 2024…

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Reimagining social work in North Ayrshire

Friday 10 May 2024

Between May 2023 and February 2024, Iriss designed and facilitated four sessions for a project with North Ayrshire HSCP as part of our Space to Practice theme.

Reimagining social work practice

A coaching approach

Friday 10 May 2024

Last Autumn I started a coaching course with the Institute of Coaching Studies.

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From Clinic to Community

Thursday 2 May 2024

In our work with Quarriers, Epilepsy Scotland and

Standalone projects

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Collaborative changemaking in North Ayrshire

Wednesday 3 April 2024

The bees are back!

Networking the change

Wellbeing and the social work practitioner

Wednesday 3 April 2024

I’ve been reflecting on presentations from Drs Pearse McCusker and Emma Miller at the Rural Social Work Forum at a webinar we ran called Wellbeing and the rural practitioner…

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Nothing comes for free?

Friday 22 March 2024

Guest blogger Andrew Lindsay from Epilepsy Scotland articulates the clash between the need for social support services, and the funding environment that surrounds them.

Standalone projects

The learning behind the Lab

Friday 15 March 2024

If you’re familiar with Iriss work, you will know that we have had projects running for a year in three thematic areas - Space to Practice

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Holly and Sam reflect on the recent ASPire conference

Monday 11 March 2024

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Goodbiriss

Thursday 29 February 2024

Today is a big day for me, my last day working at Iriss. I wanted to spend some time reflecting on my journey with the organisation.

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Promoting conversations

Wednesday 7 February 2024

Throughout our work with Passion4Fusion, we’ve been incredibly motivated by the optimism and drive of our partners.

Working with African families

Improving chronology practice in ASP

Monday 5 February 2024

A focus on chronologies has been core to our ASP workstream this year. We’ve been working closely with the Chronologies Implementation Subgroup.

Adult Support and Protection

Working with African Diaspora Families: launching our toolkit

Friday 2 February 2024

Earlier this week, we launched our toolkit for social work and social care practitioners, ‘Working with African Diaspora Families.’ We have been working in partnership with

Working with African families

Social Support for People with Epilepsy

Wednesday 24 January 2024

Since April last year, we have been working with a collaborative of organisations supporting people in Scotland with epilepsy; Quarriers, Epilepsy Connections and Epilepsy Scotland.

Standalone projects

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Reflecting on the The Scottish Social Services Awards 2023

Wednesday 13 December 2023

For the last 6 months (or more), a large portion of my working week has been spent thinking about the Scottish Social Services Awards. Iriss were delighted to be asked by Scottish Government…

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