Support service for social workers launched
Support service launched in Scotland as survey reveals pandemic has left social workers 'exhausted and seeking professional help'.
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on 2 Jun 2021
Iriss on...Making Recovery Real
A short paper on the Making Recovery Real approach, with insight from Louise Christie (SRN) and Ruth Brown (Team Leader and Chair of Making Recovery Real in Dundee.
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on 15 Apr 2020
Newly qualified social workers, supervision and child protection
ESSS Outline
Explores how newly qualified social workers can be supported in their first year, with a focus on effective supervision.
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on 8 Apr 2019
Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Young People
Showcasing Community Social Work
A peer mentoring and support network initiated by the Asylum and Roma Children and Families Team at Glasgow City Council, and co-produced with the young people themselves.
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on 26 Apr 2018
Peer support roles in mental health services
Insight 31
Defines what peer support roles are and what they mean for services and the evidence for their use in mental health services.
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on 27 May 2016
Supporting Peer Support
Thoughts for people wishing to set up, run or participate in a peer support group
Report that is drawn from lessons learned during the facilitation of Evaluation Exchange.
Evaluation Exchange was a time-limited peer support network created by Iriss and Evaluation Support Scotland. It aimed to help organisations in the social services sector to learn from and support each other to undertake evaluations of the services and support they provide to individuals in Scotland.
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on 8 Oct 2013
Evaluation Exchange report
Building capacity to self-evaluate
Evaluation Exchange was set up by Iriss working in partnership with Evaluation Support Scotland (ESS). We brought together a group of practitioners from social services sector with a real self-evaluation project to undertake. We wanted the participants to assist each other to plan and/or undertake the evaluation and build their capacity to self-evaluate. We were also interested in learning about and sharing 'what works' in peer support for self-evaluation.
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on 8 Oct 2013
The importance of peer support
Pam Duncan
Pam Duncan, policy officer at Independent Living in Scotland project, speaks about the importance of peer support in order to live a more independent and fulfilling life.
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on 9 Mar 2012