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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

Words of wisdom audit

Words of wisdom

Friday 13 October 2023
In collaboration with Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Council, we have embarked on a journey to explore how we learn about professional writing. Professional writing in social care is an art, and it…
How do we learn writing?
Care home staff discussing the role of paperwork

How do we record dignity?

Tuesday 10 October 2023
Abbotsford Care partnered with Iriss to explore how their paperwork can prompt and record the dignity that care home staff provide everyday to their
Recording dignity
close up of many post it notes stuck on a wall with a person writing on one of them with a pen

Sprint, scrum, getting things done

Wednesday 4 October 2023
I’m writing this with a cup of tea next to me, thinking about colleagues in North Ayrshire who are working with us this year through our Foundations for Change programme.
Networking the change
close up of two people's feet wearing hiking boots walking across a bridge

Hard knots and how to unpick them

Wednesday 4 October 2023
We’ve been learning about how people with different roles are seeing ‘the knot’ of getting the right support to people at the right time, hearing what influences their approach to unpicking it, and…
An outcomes-led approach to commissioning
Planting seeds of change

Child Centred Case Recording

Friday 29 September 2023
For the last year we have been working with a group of passionate practitioners taking a fresh approach to making change. The Child Centred Case Recording (CCCR) group formed in 2022. They got…
Child-centred case recording
Drawings of animals

What's our change story?

Tuesday 12 September 2023
Iriss and North Ayrshire HSCP colleagues met in Irvine on the 30th August 2023 for a workshop, building on a
Reimagining social work practice
Timeline activity

Co-designing support

Tuesday 29 August 2023
At Iriss, we’ve been partnered with Passion4Fusion for nearly six months, working on the creation of a toolkit to equip the social care workforce with the understanding they need to best support bl
Working with African families
Workshop participation

Reimagining social work

Monday 5 June 2023
Iriss and North Ayrshire HSCP colleagues met in Irvine on the 29th May for a kick-off workshop. Part of Iriss’s Space to Practice theme, the workshop was designed to provide a blend of presentation…
Reimagining social work practice
You are valued

Acknowledging anxiety

Monday 22 May 2023
Here at Iriss we have been thinking about Mental Health Awareness Week, which ran from the 15th to the 21st of May. It got me contemplating the complexity of navigating emotions, health, systems,…
Working with African families
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