Resources

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A summary of the history and evidence around relationship-based practice in social work.
Explores the challenges facing local authorities when seeking to implement brokerage models of self directed support in rural Scottish communities.

Partnerships & CO

conversation openers

A tool that provides a framework for open, honest conversations about partnerships.
Identifies evidence around recruitment strategies from voluntary social care and other relevant sectors and industries.

Co-production Project Planner

A resource to support co-production projects happen effectively

Contains a project planning workbook, a guide to planning co-production projects and a suite of Iriss facilitation tools.
Explores distributed approaches to leadership in the context of childcare and early years settings. It provides some background to Scottish policy priorities and principles of leadership and…

Iriss on… electronic monitoring in the criminal justice system

A conversation with Gill McIvor and Hannah Graham

Hannah Graham and Gill McIvor from the Scottish Centre for Criminal Justice Research (SCCJR) talks to Michelle Drumm from Iriss about the Iriss Insight they co-authored on the use of electronic…

Conversations with the Dundee Early Intervention Team

a series of conversations with families supported by the team

Conversations with families and practitioners about how a social pedagogy model makes a difference to parents and children.
Identifies evidence around social work placements and the differences and similarities between statutory and voluntary placements.
Identifies evidence relating to the relationship between adults who access child sexual abuse images online and those who commit contact offences.