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Critical reading and the Open University

User involvement in social work education

Sandy Sieminski, Jenny Bew and Alice Bradley share their learning and reflections on the importance of service user and carer involvement in critical reading.

Centrestage

Showcasing Community Social Work

Connecting people who have multiple deprivations to their geographical and social communities across Ayrshire through the arts and food.
Summarises evidence relating to the effectiveness of women specific interventions in addressing complex needs and the role they may play as preventative strategies in children's services.

COPE Scotland

Showcasing Community Social Work

A self-management programme where professionals and public work together for a fairer community and improved resilience for better mental well-being.
Explores the evidence around integrated assessment in children's services, including children's and families' experiences of the assessment process, good practice, electronic information systems,…
Focuses on pre-birth child protection assessment and care planning, and more specifically, the lead social work role within this work.

Asylum and Roma Team Anti-Poverty Initiative

Showcasing Community Social Work

An initiative to encourage Roma and non-Roma families to claim clothing grants and free school meals.
Process used to engage partners and others with the Leadership stories: developing effective supervision project

Leadership stories: developing effective supervision

Improving understanding about supervision

A project to improve understanding about supervision and clarify the role of good management in effective leadership.

Resilience resources for social work and social care workers

collected by Iriss, Social Work Scotland and the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC)

A collection of resilience resources covering topics such as supervision, leadership, self-care, and support and learning.