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Leadership stories: developing effective supervision

Leadership stories: developing effective supervision

a project to improve understanding about supervision and clarify the role of good management in effective leadership
Newborn infant in mother's arms

Pre-birth child protection

The focus of this Insight is pre-birth child protection assessment and care planning, and more specifically, the lead social work role within this work.
Partnerships & CO

Partnerships & CO

A tool that provides a framework for open, honest conversations about partnerships.
Community of Enquiry

Community of Enquiry

A Community of Enquiry (CoE) is a workshop-style session that offers space for a group of people to collaboratively explore ideas and ask rich and meaningful questions of each other.
Co-production project planner

Co-production Project Planner

Contains a project planning workbook, a guide to planning co-production projects and suite of Iriss facilitation tools.

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Frameworks for child participation in social care

ESSS Outline
This summary looks at the participation of children and young people in social care, including examples of recent frameworks. We drew on a wide range of evidence focusing on children and young people…
Published in ESSS Outlines on 8 May 2018

Person-centred community-led social support and care: equalities and human rights outcomes

Evidence Review
This evidence review was commissioned by Life Changes Trust to explore the evidence around the contribution of community-led approaches to social care and support to human rights and equalities…
Published in Reports on 7 May 2018

Service user interviewers in quality assurance

ESSS Outline
This summary explores the involvement of service users in quality assurance and service evaluation processes. It explores the evidence around what has worked and has not worked, what benefits can be…
Published in ESSS Outlines on 2 May 2018

Citadel Families Project

Showcasing Community Social Work
A family worker at the Citadel Youth Centre opened up a community based support to families previously reluctant to engage with professional services.
Published in Case studies on 30 Apr 2018

Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Young People

Showcasing Community Social Work
A peer mentoring and support network initiated by the Asylum and Roma Children and Families Team at Glasgow City Council, and co-produced with the young people themselves.
Published in Case studies on 26 Apr 2018

Continuing Care & CO

conversation openers
A tool to support practitioners, individually and in groups, reflect on their views and values when continuing to care for young people who are leaving care.
Published in Tools on 25 Apr 2018

I Am Me

Iriss.fm, Episode 198
Michael McEwan speaks to Debbie and Megan from I Am Me, a community charity, which is focused on raising awareness of disability hate crime.
Published in Iriss.fm on 23 Apr 2018

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): educational interventions

ESSS Outline
This summary explores the evidence around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), their impact on educational outcomes and what interventions may be effective in supporting young people with ACEs in…
Published in ESSS Outlines on 23 Apr 2018

Self-directed support and workforce development

ESSS Outline
This summary looks at how the social care workforce in Scotland can be further developed to deliver self-directed support. In the literature reviewed, there was limited shared knowledge about…
Published in ESSS Outlines on 17 Apr 2018

Geetha Marcus

Iriss.fm, Episode 197
Presentation from Geetha Mercus on how she researched the educational experiences of Gypsy/Traveller girls in Scotland.
Published in Iriss.fm on 11 Apr 2018

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