Do you know of a good example of community social work? If so, we'd love to hear from you – or colleagues you know.
Why?
We want to celebrate community social work in Scotland, showcasing what it is and can offer in 2017 and beyond.
We aim to do this through creating a digital suite of engaging multi-media case studies or stories, grounded in real life context and experience.
What we hope to achieve:
- Celebration of the achievements of community social work
- Sharing good practice and learning
- Greater understanding of what community social work is and has to offer
- Help influence future policy and practice around what this means specifically for the social work profession
In a second phase, we plan to discuss what this means for the social work profession (and in its relationship with others) in the current context and landscape.
How to get involved?
If you are interested in working with us to help produce a case study or story, please read further information about the project and answer four questions. Please complete these questions no later than Wednesday, 4th October 2017.
Decisions on which stories have been selected will be communicated no later than 20th October 2017.
If selected, we will expect the main contact person to help set up meetings with key people, and support data collection as part of the fieldwork stage. This is planned across the case studies for November 2017-January/ February 2018. Iriss will cover travel expenses or hospitality costs associated with the involvement of service-users/carers/community members in the telling of any of these case studies/ stories.
We will be looking to reflect good practice, learning and diversity in the selected case studies that will help meet what the project hopes to achieve.
If you have any questions or would welcome further discussion, please email: kerry.musselbrook@iriss.org.uk or telephone: 0141 559 5062.
