Reports

This year we will continue our core work of helping create the conditions for great social work and social care support to flourish. Our work plan was devised with feedback and input from voices across the sector…

While planning the work for 2023/24, we saw that there’s plenty of support for improvement (doing something better) in social work and social care support but a lack of dedicated focus on evidence-informed innovation…

It’s easy to get bogged down in worries for the future, feel like everything is against us and forget to see the whole board. There can be no change or innovation without hope and ambition…

This report provides an overview of a project between Iriss and North Ayrshire HSCP from April 2023 and February 2024. A brief background is outlined and a summary of workshop activity provided, with detailed workshop reports available in the appendices…

This report explores working with 16 and 17 year olds, who might be eligible for support through Adult Support and Protection (ASP) legislation and Child Protection (CP) guidance.

This summary report provides an analysis and overview of the Chief Social Work Officer (CSWO) 2022-2023 Annual Reports. These annual reports are based around a reporting template and give a general overview of the social work landscape in Scotland.

Reporting on research to explore the current practice context of social work leadership in Scotland, through the perspectives of social workers from across the profession, with the aim of better understanding how Social Work Scotland and its partners, including Iriss, can support developing and existing leaders in future…

This framework offers a set of processes and principles that will be helpful to those conducting and/or participating in Large Scale Investigations. To help think through how these processes and principles can be realised, the framework also contains practice steps that can be considered as hallmarks of good practice…

This report describes scoping research undertaken by Iriss in support of the implementation of key elements of the Adult Support and Protection (ASP) National Improvement Plan (Scottish Government, 2019), in relation to the areas of 'data and evidence' and 'practice improvement.' A key focus is chronologies, which are consistently identified across inspection reports and numerous other reviews of adult Support and Protection activity (including Significant Case Reviews) as an area of improvement…

Adult Support and Protection (ASP) is designed to support and protect adults who are unable to safeguard themselves, their property and their rights. The Adult Support and Protection (Scotland) Act 2007 (ASPA) both defines and provides the legislation framework for all of this work. This report aims to raise awareness of ASP and its important role and contribution in keeping ‘adults at risk’ safe…