Iriss

Research that seeks to understand the experience and needs of children in care through the lens of ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief.

Evidence summary providing an overview of evidence relating to how care experience affects education and employment.

A resource that platforms the voices of Gypsy/Traveller communities and provides practical steps to strengthen social work practice.

A collection of stories that help make sense of what the COVID-19 crisis has meant for outcomes for people. It includes learning to inform practice, policy and recovery.

A summary of the evidence from policy and scrutiny activity, and recommendations for the future direction of SDS policy and practice.

Considers some of the challenges posed to child protection processes in Scotland.

A course that improves the writing of analysis in social work and social care records.

Explores the relevance of attachment, an emotional link between two people which lasts through space and time, to our understanding of dementia and its impact on people and their family carers.

Highlights the nature and context of 'blind' decision making and shows the impact of relationship, trust and communication in managers’ decision making.

Outlines the concept of emotional resilience and considers how the policy and practice of social work may influence the development of organisational cultures.