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Man seated in bedroom fill with disordered clutter

Hoarding Disorder: Towards a unified approach beyond disciplines

This Insight explores how transdisciplinary collaboration across health, social work, social care, housing, environmental health, emergency services, third sector support and other related professionals can transform practice and reduce low-value interventions for people with hoarding disorder…
Published 19 Jan 2026 in Insights

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Voluntary social care recruitment

ESSS Outline

Identifies evidence around recruitment strategies from voluntary social care and other relevant sectors and industries.
Published 15 Jan 2018 in Outlines

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.
Published 8 Jan 2018 in Tools

Distributed leadership in early years and childcare

ESSS Outline

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…
Published 19 Dec 2017 in Outlines

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…
Published 11 Dec 2017 in Iriss on…

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.
Published 7 Dec 2017 in Case studies

Social work student placements and employability

ESSS Outline

Identifies evidence around social work placements and the differences and similarities between statutory and voluntary placements.
Published 6 Dec 2017 in Outlines

Child​ ​sexual​ ​abuse images​ ​online​ ​and risk​ ​of​ ​contact child​ ​sexual​ ​abuse

ESSS Outline

Identifies evidence relating to the relationship between adults who access child sexual abuse images online and those who commit contact offences.
Published 6 Dec 2017 in Outlines

Parental substance misuse and social worker intervention

ESSS Outline

Explores the impact of parental substance misuse on children and identifies evidence around effective methods of intervention for social workers.
Published 17 Nov 2017 in Outlines

Child sexual abuse and good practice for social workers

Identifies evidence around good practice approaches to investigating child sexual abuse that may minimise harm or distress to children and non-abusing caregivers.
Published 16 Nov 2017 in Outlines

Disability hate crime reporting

ESSS Outline

Identifies evidence relating to the efficacy of interventions in increasing reporting of disability hate crimes and supporting people through the process of reporting, and potential areas of unmet…
Published 16 Nov 2017 in Outlines

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