Care experience and employment
Iriss Outline
Evidence summary providing an overview of evidence relating to how care experience affects education and employment.
Published in
on 3 Aug 2021
Covid-19, low incomes and poverty
ESSS Outline
Evidence summary that provides an overview of recent evidence relating to Covid-19 and how it affects those on low incomes and in poverty.
Published in
on 14 Jul 2020
Mindfulness in social work education and practice
Insight 56
Provides students and practitioners with the opportunity to critically assess the value of mindfulness as a way of attending to wellbeing in their professional and personal lives.
Published in
on 8 Jul 2020
Schools, safeguarding and early intervention
ESSS Outline
This evidence summary looks at how schools can support early intervention to prevent children and young people from entering care.
Published in
on 29 Apr 2019
Stories of service user involvement
Seven stories that illustrate and celebrate service user and carer involvement in social work teaching and learning.
Published in
on 17 Oct 2018
Person-centred community-led social support and care: equalities and human rights outcomes
Evidence Review
This evidence review was commissioned by Life Changes Trust to explore the evidence around the contribution of community-led approaches to social care and support to human rights and equalities outcomes.
Published in
on 7 May 2018
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): educational interventions
ESSS Outline
Explores the evidence around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), their impact on educational outcomes and what interventions may be effective.
Published in
on 23 Apr 2018
Distributed leadership in early years and childcare
ESSS Outline
Explores distributed approaches to leadership in the context of childcare and early years settings. It provides some background to Scottish policy priorities and principles of leadership and distributed approaches.
Published in
on 19 Dec 2017
Seeking workshop contributions
You are invited to provide a workshop contribution to a national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education.
The conference will be held on 26 April 2017 at the University of Stirling and bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers. It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels.
Workshops should:
Published in
on 2 Feb 2017
Shaping the future
Making a successful transition from student to social worker
What's it like for a student leaving university and making the transition into the world of work?
Iriss teamed up with Glasgow Caledonian University, SSSC, the Scottish Association of Social Workers and the Scottish Government to find out. About 120 final year students as well as newly qualified social workers gathered at GCU on 22 January 2015 to share information and experience with aim of helping to shape the future direction of social work.
Published in
on 15 Jan 2015
