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Professional curiosity in public protection

Iriss’s Professional Curiosity project has been seeking to develop a deeper understanding of this topic and its implications for the Public Protection workforce in Scotland. This report brings together both the literature review and findings from the discussion sessions that were core to the…
Published 20 Mar 2026 in Reports

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Fit for the Future: Enhancing relationships in care at home using caring conversations

A workshop process to introduce care home staff to caring conversations.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

Fit for the Future: Beautiful Practice Cards

Cards to encourage people who access support to record beautiful practice that has touched them.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

Fit for the Future: Outcomes in care homes cards

Cards which show a series of snapshots of what life in an outcomes-focused care home might look like.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

Fit for the Future: Lessons for collaboration

Lessons that can be applied to any collaborative project and should be used as ‘food for thought’ to help plan productive partnerships.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

Fit for the Future: Values based recruitment

A series of exercises to be done with management teams, staff and people who access support.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

Fit for the Future: Business planning

A tool to create a SWOT analysis, an action plan and develop a service story.
Published 11 Oct 2016 in Tools

The impact of welfare reform on the social services workforce

Insight 32

Explores the impact of welfare reform – in a climate of austerity and cuts – on key client groups and its consequent effect on the social services workforce in Scotland.
Published 15 Jun 2016 in Insights

Peer support roles in mental health services

Insight 31

Defines what peer support roles are and what they mean for services and the evidence for their use in mental health services.
Published 27 May 2016 in Insights

Iriss review of the year 2015/16

We've published our annual activity review for 2015/16, which will give you a snapshot of all of our work for the year. Introduced by Peter MacLeod, Iriss Chair, it includes a summary of our project…
Published 9 May 2016 in Annual reviews

How early years trauma affects the brain

The child who mistrusts good care

Dan Hughes summarises how the brain reacts to trauma and how an understanding of this process is helpful to foster and adoptive parents and professionals.
Published 4 Feb 2016 in Videos

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