Events

A national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education. The conference will bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers.

It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels. The conference sets out to:

“Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people.” It incorporates principles of social justice, human rights, collective responsibility and respect for diversity." (International definition of social work)

This free workshop will explore the topics of eligibility criteria and critical need. It is a follow up to our first Iriss SEEDS workshop held in November.

The workshop will be interactive and provide reflection time and a safe space to explore key challenges from your contexts. It will also surface what we know about strengths, successes, existing good practice and build on 'what works'.

Robert White, Head of Social Work from Independent Living Fund Scotland, will co-facilitate the day. 

Being a social worker is both a rewarding and challenging job. How do you stay safe, motivated, resilient, informed and heard?

We invite student and newly qualified social workers to the Forum to debate what matters to YOU and to identify what we can do together. It will offer discussion, peer support and sustenance! (Pizza and coffee will be available from 6.30pm).

This free event will provide attendees with the opportunity to share their experiences in a safe and honest space independent of local authority and university. It will support:

Audit Scotland recently concluded that social work in Scotland is at a ‘watershed’, with fundamental decisions needing to be taken on how services are provided in the future. They stressed that the public and people who access the range of social work services provided across Scotland must be more involved in shaping future provision, with a debate required 'on the level, the nature and affordability of services.'
 

A Scottish Government led engagement event that will support the workforce to meet the challenge of translating knowledge into practice. It will introduce a range of knowledge and improvement tools and techniques to help in delivering transformational change in the workplace.

Participants will leave the event with a set of tools, services and support options to help you to use knowledge and deliver improvement in frontline practice and service delivery.

Who should attend?

Come along to the first workshop of our new SEEDS group. SEEDS is a refresh of the Iriss champion network which we set up in 2010.

One of the most vital aspects of the champion network was the dialogue, networking, advice, insights and inspiration it generated. Our champions have been a great sounding board, helping to guide our direction and spark project ideas.

We are inviting social workers to attend a free workshop which will use storytelling to help you find, shape and share your voice. This workshop will be delivered by the Village Storytelling Centre, a brilliant organisation who specialise in using storytelling to bring people together and to provide a space for creativity and relaxation.

‘Effective Supervision is the cornerstone of safe social work practice. There is no substitute for it’

Lord Laming in his Inquiry report into the death of Victoria Climbié (2003)