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At the end of March 2012, the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) awarded its annual Social Worker of the Year Award 2011 to Sandy Watt, mental health officer at North Lanarkshire Council. At…
At the end of March 2012, the Scottish Association of Social Work (SASW) awarded its annual Social Worker of the Year Award 2011 to Sandy Watt, mental health officer at North Lanarkshire Council. At…

Redesigning support for care leavers

Exploring the use of co-productive methods to collaboratively design and improve leaving care services

Final report of a project that brought together care leavers in Argyll and Bute with their corporate parents (throughcare and aftercare, social work, health, homelessness and education services), to…
Provides an overview of the research evidence on effective strengths based approaches for working with individuals and presents selected illustrative examples.
Background One of Iriss's private sector Champions, Aspire Scotland Ltd, has been shortlisted for an award at the SSSC Care Accolades. Aspire Scotland believes that high quality social care and…

Autism – telling a story through video

How we made Liam's story

Liam Robertson is 20 years old and has autism. He has a passion for film, attends Scottish Youth Theatre, works part-time in a Barnardo's shop in Glasgow and would like to pursue a career in the…

Digital storytelling - Liam's video CV - Liam Robertson

Liam's video CV demonstrates how someone with autism can use video to help others see beyond the disability

Liam Robertson is 20 years old and has autism. He has a passion for film and would like to pursue a career in the theatre. In this video Liam talks about his interests and aspirations, attending…

Digital storytelling - the parents' story - Kenny Robertson, Mary Robertson

Autism: from diagnosis to development to independence and a career…

Liam Robertson is 20 years old and has autism. His parents talk about Liam's passion for the theatre and the support they received to help Liam develop independence and obtain an NVQ2 in customer…

Digital storytelling - personalisation - David Lettice

A social worker explains how video can help us 'see beyond the disability'

"People with disabilities have all sort of skills and abilities and that's what needs to be promoted. We need to get beyond seeing the disability, and I think video's a really good way of doing it…

Web-based tools for learning, collaborating and sharing knowledge

A survey of access to social in media in the workplace

Background Social is media in increasingly used by all kinds of people in their private and professional lives and by all kinds of organisations to find and share information.