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Peer Support for Mental Health
The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) has published a report on the role of peer support...
Prevention through Enabled Communities
The Scottish Government has seen the need, since 2010, with the launch of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010,...
Statistics in Improving Services for People with a Learning Disability
Mencap on their website tell us that less than 1 in 5 people with a learning disability work (compared with 1...
Evaluating Progress in Personalisation
Keys to Life The Scottish Government introduced Keys to Life in 2013 as a ten-year strategic policy to increase inclusion and...
New approaches to Inspection
The Care Inspectorate in Scotland regulates a wide range of care and support services in the country. There is an...
Supporting people through Art & Music
Arts4Dementia Arts4Dementia (A4D) is a charity whose logo includes 'Empowering people with memory loss through artistic stimulation'. Their events and information...
Advance Care Directives
In Scotland, people receiving health and social care can make advance directives. These are statements of how they would want...
Funding Improvements for People with Learning Disabilities
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The Scottish Government introduced a new strategy in 2013 to improve services for...
Improving Supervision
The IRISS The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) is a charitable company with a mission to: ‘…promote positive...
Participation and quality
These are challenging times in providing social care, but there is also innovation and overall development of the sector. The...