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The IRISS The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) is a charitable company with a mission to: ‘…promote positive outcomes for the people who use Scotland’s social…

These are challenging times in providing social care, but there is also innovation and overall development of the sector. The recent introduction of the Care Act 2014 in England has…

Inspections by the Care Inspectorate in Scotland shifted in focus when it began to grade services for their quality. Grades are published with the inspection report, and ranged from ‘6,…

Funding for care services in Scotland has been continuously reduced due to year-on-year cuts in local authority funding, causing great difficulties for people who use these services. The simple cause…

Scottish care services, independent and council-run, together with the local area health services across the country, are currently working through an exciting but challenging time of change. By 2016, these…

There are substantial challenges for the care sector at present. One factor is the current shrinking economy of care, whereby funding is increasingly reduced in this time of public austerity.…

The NHS in England has released a circular, expressing concern about the over-medication of people with learning disability. In the wake of the Winterbourne View abuse investigation in 2012, staff…

Evidence-based practice has for some time been an important principle in providing social care. Recent developments have seen the importance of evidence and intelligence-based practice increasing. These changes include the…