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Iriss has published a ten year strategy

After a period of consultation, strategising and development, Iriss has released a document outlining the organisations strategy from 2025 to 2035.  Grounded in the current conditions of the sector, the strategy outlines the organisations priorities, goals and ambitions for the next ten…
Published 20 Jan 2025 in News

Facing our fear of the future… to embrace it

Exploring future lifestyles or professional options with disabled people and their families is a creative process – albeit often in an unfamiliar territory. Too many people feel ‘stuck’ and don’t…
Published 14 Oct 2014 in Features

…… and my next question is!!

I went for a cliffhanger approach at the end of my last Creative Bite when the first question was "Is there time to be creative?" My argument was that there was a lot that we could do to create time…
Published 7 Oct 2014 in Features

My Home Life Scotland

My Home Life (MHL) was originally a project set up in 2006 by the National Care Forum (an organisation that represents not-for-profit care homes) and Help the Aged. It was established to promote…
Published 3 Oct 2014 in Features

Winners celebrate Self Management Partnership Award

As part of Self Management Week (29th September to 3rd October), the ALLIANCE hosted the Self Management Awards at the Garden Lobby at Scottish Parliament on 2 October. One of the key aims of Self…
Published 2 Oct 2014 in News

HTML - a tool for creativity

Recently I had the opportunity to try Paperlater a new service from the smart people at Newspaper Club.  It's a service that enables you to take web pages you’ve been meaning to read and collect them…
Published 29 Sep 2014 in Features

Are you thinking with your hands?

“We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye…The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.” (Bronowski, 1973) We’…
Published 22 Sep 2014 in Features
Relationships Matter

Relationships Matter

Relationships MatterIriss's Innovation and Improvement Team is leading an exciting new project entitled, Relationships Matter, to develop ideas that support young people who are leaving care to…
Published 22 Sep 2014 in News

A different way of doing things

The first thing I learnt having a significant life long impairment is that to succeed in the world as a credible disability consultant and activist is that I had to do things differently to make the…
Published 16 Sep 2014 in Features

Time to get rid of the forms

Good assessment of someone's care and support needs to start from a blank sheet of paper. This is a notion that has the power to strike terror into hearts of seasoned professionals - or does it?…
Published 9 Sep 2014 in Features

The power of asking

Through the very act of asking people, I’d connected with them, and when you connect with them, people want to help you. This quote comes from a brilliant TED talk by the musician Amanda Palmer…
Published 5 Sep 2014 in Features

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