Resources

Child in woods

Child protection in the 21st century: a role for contextual safeguarding

Considers some of the challenges posed to child protection processes in Scotland as a result of the evolving range of risks and harm which children and young people face in the 21st century.
Older couple embracing

Dementia: attachment matters

Explores the relevance of attachment to our understanding of dementia and its impact on people and their family carers.
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Writing analysis in social care

A course that provides a practical framework for supporting the writing of analysis in social care records, and is relevant to those working in social work and social care.
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Creating a culture of resilience for social workers

Outlines the concept of emotional resilience and considers how the policy and practice of social work may influence the development of organisational cultures.
Image of painted directions on a road by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

An exploration of first line managers’ decision making

Highlights the nature and context of 'blind' decision making and shows the impact of relationship, trust and communication in managers’ decision making.

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8 Apr 2021

Mecoco: Meaningful Contribution in your Community

Mecoco (Meaningful Contribution in your Community) is a social enterprise based in North Ayrshire that supports people into employment. The founder, Jenny Trott, believes that regardless of their…
18 Mar 2021

Rural social work: dual relationships

Monica Nicolin and Gillian Ritch, social workers based in Stornoway and Orkney respectively, speak about dual relationships in rural social work. These presentations were given at a webinar held in…
15 Mar 2021

Alzheimer Scotland: the place of Near Me in our service

Near Me in Social Services is a project Iriss has been leading in partnership with the NHS Near Me team and the Scottish Government Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Programme over Autumn/Winter 2020/…
10 Mar 2021

How care home staff and family carers responded to visiting restrictions

A study to gauge how lockdown restrictions have affected the families of care home residents, have been published. The research, titled Creative Covid Care, highlights the relationship-based and…

Iriss resources

Agency-based practice learning opportunities: evaluation report executive summary

Learning for Effective and Ethical Practice

Executive summary of the evaluation report for the agency-based practice learning demonstration project.

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

Agency-based practice learning opportunities: evaluation report

Learning For Effective And Ethical Practice

Demonstration project evaluation report. Three Higher Education Institutions are involved in the development of the LEEP Project: the University of Edinburgh has a leading role in enhancing the…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

Agency-based practice learning: literature review

Learning For Effective And Ethical Practice

This report reflects the requirement of Objective 1.3 of the LEEP Project: Systematically review and thematically summarise the literature (using both existing summaries and new sources) concerned…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

Opportunities for interprofessional learning: literature review

Learning For Effective And Ethical Practice

This review seeks to identify the key themes informing the task of equipping social workers to work in a multidisciplinary context (SSSC 2003). The review considers how policy imperatives for…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

Integration of learning for practice: practice audit

Learning For Effective And Ethical Practice

Opportunities for interprofessional learning and agency-based practice learning opportunities. This practice audit was carried out as part of the Learning for Effective and Ethical Practice…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

New assessment methods: practice audit

Integrated Assessment

A Practice Audit of current assessment methods in social work education was commissioned by the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE) to provide a resource to assist…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

New assessment methods: literature review

Integrated Assessment

This report was commissioned by the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE) as a resource on assessment for the development of the new social work degree in Scotland…

Published in Reports on 14 Mar 2004

Integration of learning for practice: literature review

Learning For Effective And Ethical Practice

In November 2003, as part of the Learning for Effective and Ethical Practice (LEEP) project funded by The Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education, the University of Edinburgh…

Published in Reports on 12 Mar 2004

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