Fit for the Future: Outcomes in care homes cards
Cards which show a series of snapshots of what life in an outcomes-focused care home might look like.
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on 11 Oct 2016
Fit for the Future: Lessons for collaboration
Lessons that can be applied to any collaborative project and should be used as ‘food for thought’ to help plan productive partnerships.
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on 11 Oct 2016
Fit for the Future: Values based recruitment
A series of exercises to be done with management teams, staff and people who access support.
Published in
on 11 Oct 2016
Fit for the Future: Business planning
A tool to create a SWOT analysis, an action plan and develop a service story.
Published in
on 11 Oct 2016
The impact of welfare reform on the social services workforce
Insight 32
Explores the impact of welfare reform – in a climate of austerity and cuts – on key client groups and its consequent effect on the social services workforce in Scotland.
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on 15 Jun 2016
Peer support roles in mental health services
Insight 31
Defines what peer support roles are and what they mean for services and the evidence for their use in mental health services.
Published in
on 27 May 2016
How early years trauma affects the brain
The child who mistrusts good care
Dan Hughes summarises how the brain reacts to trauma and how an understanding of this process is helpful to foster and adoptive parents and professionals.
Published in
on 4 Feb 2016
The child's journey
A guide to the Scottish justice system
An online interactive guide that describes the stages in the criminal justice process for under 18s in Scotland.
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on 28 Jan 2016
Autism and acting
Liam's career four years on
In 2012 Liam Robertson, who is on the autism spectrum, told us about his passion for TV, film and theatre and his ambition to become an actor. Liam's story is inspirational, demonstrating the importance of seeing the person, not the disability.
Published in
on 3 Dec 2015
The Golden Bridge
Child migration from Scotland to Canada, 1869-1939
Telling the story of the thousands of children who migrated from the Orphan Homes of Scotland to to new lives in Canada, The Golden Bridge was inspired by an original exhibition created and displayed by Heatherbank Museum of Social Work in Glasgow Caledonian University. The Golden Bridge project was a collaboration between Iriss, Glasgow Caledonian University and Quarriers.
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on 12 Oct 2015
