Iriss

This is one of seven stories, showcasing what service user and carer (SUAC) involvement in social work education looks like, what makes it work and what benefits it brings. It has a significant role to play in shaping the next generation of practitioners.

Why service users and carers think this matters, and what they hope for, what students got out of these sessions and reflections on the sessions.

This Outline looks at how providers of leisure activities can improve accessibility and inclusivity for people with disabilities and their carers.

Explores the evidence around models of collaborative practice involving health and social care, social work and police services in relation to work to support and protect vulnerable adults with complex needs.

Summary of evidence which examines the interventions for older women experiencing domestic violence and abuse.

Explores the evidence around the impact of individual experiential therapies (e.g. animal assisted, play, arts) and EMDR, for young people who have experienced trauma.

A critical history of community social work, fifty years after the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968.

Iriss was involved in delivering workshops, alongside Corra Foundation, that helped explore with intermediary support organisations their approaches to expressing the impact and outcomes of their work.

Story of role-play sessions held between social work students at the University of Strathclyde and members of the service user and carer group.

Olivia Ndoti from the Women's Asylum Support Housing (WASH) project talks to social work students about having No Recourse to Public Funds.