Social care

Care Assistance

Pam Duncan, Policy Officer at Independent Living in Scotland project, speaks about her experiences of care assistance in Scotland

Community Catalysts

Community Catalysts is a Community Interest Company established in January 2010 by and working in close partnership with the charity Shared Lives Plus, an organisation that promotes the effective provision of accommodation, care and support for vulnerable adults within very small-scale family and community settings. Community Catalysts works to harness the talents of people and communities to provide imaginative solutions to social issues and care needs, giving them greater choice in the way they live their lives.

Shaping the choreography of care and support

Iriss Forum, Designs for the future 2011

Alison Petch (Iriss Director), Lisa Pattoni and Gayle Rice (Iriss Project Managers) and Ian Grout (Glasgow School of Art) explain the background to this project which involved students from the Glasgow School of Art working with practitioners and people who use services to consider how to reshape care and support. There were four themes: reablement, partnership working and communication, social isolation and anticipatory care.

Iriss Forum 2011: Angela Constance

Iriss Forum, Designs for the future 2011

Minister for Children and Young People, Angela Constance MSP introduced 2011 Iriss Forum held in Glasgow on 6th December 2011. She has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Livingston Constituency since May 2007, prior to which she worked as a social worker and mental health officer and was a local councillor in Livingston.

Money Matters

Reviews of cost-effective initiatives

A set of case studies, produced for Iriss by the Institute of Public Care, on initiatives, which through detailed costings, have been shown to be cost effective.

The eight case studies include:

  1. Shared lives
  2. Extra-care housing
  3. Health in mind
  4. LinkAge Plus
  5. Care and repair
  6. Self assessment
  7. Individual budgets
  8. Southwark Hospital discharge.