Iriss

What did we learn from our Learning Week?

Learning Week is over at Iriss now. We spent three days in person, eating pastries and chatting about how our year was, things we celebrate and learn, how we keep aligned to our new strategy, using our new evaluation process, showcasing our skills and impact and what the next year could look like for us. 

Evaluation - Invisible String

As part of our learning week we had a day where we focused on our internal evaluation process, as well as how we can better use the data we already collect to show our impact to partners and stakeholders.

Exploring the intersections of our work 

In a fast-paced environment, the instinct can be to act quickly, but without a shared understanding of where we have been, we could move in directions that are not fully aligned or as effective as they could be. In having a learning week, we are valuing and including reflective practice into our work, to help us be more strategic, more collaborative, and ultimately, more influential in the change we seek to create.

Iriss work plan 2024/25

Our core work for the next year

This year we will continue our core work of helping create the conditions for great social work and social care support to flourish. Our work plan was devised with feedback and input from voices across the sector…

The impact of Iriss 2023/24

The difference we've made

While planning the work for 2023/24, we saw that there’s plenty of support for improvement (doing something better) in social work and social care support but a lack of dedicated focus on evidence-informed innovation…

The progress we've seen

A social work and social care retrospective

It’s easy to get bogged down in worries for the future, feel like everything is against us and forget to see the whole board. There can be no change or innovation without hope and ambition…