ASPire 2024 - Keynote Talks
On the 22 February 2024, ASPire took place at The Barracks in Stirling. Featuring keynote speakers with specialisms across adult support and protection.
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on 25 Mar 2024
Hidden issues in rural social work and communities
We are delighted to announce the second ever rural social work conference in Scotland. This free online conference will explore hidden issues and injustices in rural communities and the role of rural social workers.
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on 14 Mar 2024
Tackling child poverty in rural settings
Iriss hosted an online event on March 21 2024 focusing on child poverty in rural settings, and the role of rural social workers and other community stakeholders.
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on 11 Mar 2024
Working with African Diaspora Families: A Toolkit for the Workforce
We launched our supportive toolkit for the workforce, ‘Working with African Diaspora Families’ in January, and we are now so pleased you can check it out on the resources section of our website, and you can read all about the journey we took to create it in the space we have for our current work.
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on 29 Feb 2024
Wellbeing and the rural practitioner
On Tuesday 5 December 2023 we hosted a webinar exploring the findings of the Setting the Bar for Social Work in Scotland research. This research touches on what makes people want to stay in, or leave the profession…
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on 2 Nov 2023
Empowering the Workforce: Supporting African Families
Passion4Fusion and Iriss are developing resources for the social care workforce to build understanding and the knowledge required to support children, young people and families from ethnic minority backgrounds…
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on 26 May 2023
Evolve: getting innovation into practice
Join us on the 16th of May in Stirling for a day of doing things differently (innovating) in social work and social care support in Scotland!
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on 17 Mar 2023
International perspectives in rural social work
A webinar about about rural social work practice in Alaska and Sierra Leone. Video and presenter slides are available.
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on 16 Feb 2023
Criminal justice perspectives on rural social work
Attend a webinar on 1 February to hear about experiences of social work in hyper-rural settings.
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on 9 Jan 2023
No one direction: creative approaches to commissioning
An online event that will showcase approaches to commissioning in social care and support.
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on 23 Nov 2022
