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Closing thoughts

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.

Recording dignity

And now, over to you...

Friday 28 June 2024

And we are off! Earlier this week, we had our first Voices and Visions online session.

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

A Day with Iriss: reflecting on our conference

Tuesday 25 June 2024

Last week, we hosted our annual conference - A day working with Iriss.

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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

Young person in a hammock in the woods smiling into camera

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

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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.

Inside Iriss

From Clinic to Community

Thursday 2 May 2024

In our work with Quarriers, Epilepsy Scotland and

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A collection of nine beehives in a field

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.

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