Developing social care and support
Preventing loneliness and social isolation for older people
This video highlights the personal perspectives of two individuals using the services of Raise. They offer an insight into how borderline personality disorders can lead to behaviour that may challenge. Raise exclusively employs people with a diagnosed mental health problem, including cleaners, directors and trainers who can inform from their own personal experience.
Experience lab, case study 2
Positive Prisons? Positive Futures (PPPF) is a Scottish charity that uses its collective experience of the criminal justice system, to benefit others still within the system, or shortly after release.
Experience lab, case study 1
South Lanarkshire is moving from a day care centre service delivery model (where daily activities are provided), to a model that supports and facilitates individuals with learning difficulties to access lifestyle choices that they want and need in the community.
Iriss, in partnership with Coalition of Care and Support Providers (CCPS), commissioned research to understand how Scotland's third sector care and support workforce is being affected by the welfare reforms introduced in 2012.
Iriss on...
Innovation is not a practice reserved for ‘the creative’ or ‘the experts’. You innovate all the time…
Please Listen is a play about growing up in the care system in Scotland. It was written by young people at Kibble Education and Care Centre in Paisley and has been performed over 40 times with different organisations across the country - including Scottish Parliament. The play has been developed into a short film so that more people can see the work.
People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues will be an asset to any work team
Insight 26
