Commissioning

Practitioner Research with NQSWs in North Ayrshire HSCP

Benefits, challenges, ideas

Group engaged in workshop activity
Iriss and North Ayrshire HSCP colleagues met in Saltcoats in early November for a workshop about practitioner research. We were joined by newly qualified and student social workers plus a Practice Teacher from the Learning and Development team. Iriss is supporting other change work in the HSCP around commissioning and reimagining social work…
Reimagining social work practice
Published on 27 Nov 2023

Sprint, scrum, getting things done

close up of many post it notes stuck on a wall with a person writing on one of them with a pen

I’m writing this with a cup of tea next to me, thinking about colleagues in North Ayrshire who are working with us this year through our Foundations for Change programme. I’m sitting here at my desk tapping away at the keyboard while they are getting active - forming scrums and starting sprints!  

Networking the change
Published on 4 Oct 2023

New course on ethical commissioning

Drawing of figures
Register for a course that will help you apply ethical principles to the planning and purchase of adult social care and support services.
Published in
News
on 9 May 2022

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