This tool is designed to help leaders to improve chronology practice. ‘Leader’ in this context means someone, regardless of positional authority, who wants to improve chronology practice…
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…
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, Aspris Children's Services (formerly Aspire Scotland Ltd), has been shortlisted for an award at the SSSC Care Accolades.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Provides a brief introduction to the research evidence about the process of desistance from crime. It also explores some of the potential practice and policy implications emerging from this evidence.
