Transcript: Creative care and support: Pitlochry
Project to assist the community to develop better supports for people who use social services and forms part of the Creative Quarter programme of work.
Category: Community development
Transcript: The Advocacy Project
Catriona Rowley of The Advocacy Project talks to Michael McEwan of Able Radio about advocacy and the services offered by the project.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Welfare reform. Impact on third sector social and housing care providers in Scotland
Iriss and CCPS - the Coalition of Care and Support Providers in Scotland - collaborated on an ESRC funded research project to investigate the impact of welfare reform on third sector social and housing care providers in Scotland.
Category: Welfare reform
Transcript: Status change: will the marriage of health and social care lead to better partnership working?
The Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Bill that has passed through Scottish Parliament is aimed at ensuring closer integration of health and social care services across Scotland.
Category: Integration
Transcript: How can we ensure that older people are equal partners in developing preventative approaches?
Plan P: New approaches to prevention with older people, is an Iriss project which addresses the issue of social isolation and loneliness amongst older people.
Category: Adult social care
Transcript: Dates-n-Mates nightclub for people with learning disabilities
Michael McEwan of Able Radio catches up with John Paul, a Director of Dates-n-Mates, at the Arches to talk about Late, Scotland's first inclusive club night for people with learning disabilities.
Category: Disability
Transcript: Fit for the Future
A project dedicated to inspiring better outcomes for older people in Scotland.
Category: Adult social care
Transcript: The Peckham Experiment. Henrietta Trotter in conversation with Lisa Curtice
The centre was set up in 1926 as a public health research study and became something of an icon for people interested in self organising communities.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Using the Sony Playstation Portable (PsP) for context based learning
During 2013 Iriss worked with Key to explore how mobile technologies might provide context-based information and training for care workers.
Category: Learning and development
Transcript: Disability sports in Scotland and the Commonwealth Games 2014
Michael McEwan of Able Radio speaks to Gavin Macleod, Chief Executive of Scottish Disability Sport about the work that they do and the build up to Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Category: Disability