Transcript: Challenge Poverty Week: effects of welfare reform on practice and practitioners
The effects of welfare reform on practice and practitioners: How can we continue to deliver positive services?
Category: Welfare reform
Transcript: Able Radio presents - September 2013
We are pleased to introduce guest presenter Michael McEwan, a regular contributor to Able Radio. Michael offers a roundup of news and events for people with disabilities.
Category: Disability
Transcript: Promoting Excellence in Dementia Education Conference
The Promoting Excellence in Dementia Education conference was held on 18 September 2013 at the Stirling Management Centre. It was organised by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) and Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC).
Category: Mental health
Transcript: Public debate on welfare reform, Learning Disability Week 2013
Welfare reform will mean that people with learning disabilities will be pushed further into poverty?
Category: Welfare reform
Transcript: Residential child care in Bangladesh
As a forester starting out with no qualifications in social work, Tuhinul did voluntary work with street children and the children of sex workers in Bangladesh.
Category: Young people
Transcript: Self-directed support is just the same as an outcomes focused approach?
This is the first in a series of round-table discussions that was recorded at the Iriss offices in the busy Merchant City of Glasgow.
Category: Self-directed support
Transcript: A collaborative consultation on the draft statutory guidance for self-directed support in Scotland
Following the publication of the draft guidance on self-directed support, a consultation event was held to give service providers, users of services and carers, the opportunity to air their views on the various parts of the guidance.
Category: Self-directed support
Transcript: Real Lives, Real Difference: service user and carer involvement in professional education
Focused on the subject of service user and carer involvement in professional education.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Care Accolades 2013
Iriss.fm spoke to a number of people involved in the many projects nominated for awards, as well as Alan Baird, Chief Social Work Advisor at Scottish Government; and Anna Fowlie, Chief Executive of SSSC.
Category: Social work (general)
Transcript: Why volunteer?
Iriss brought together nine people at the Volunteer Development Scotland offices in Stirling to discuss what motivated them to volunteer, and to share their experiences of volunteering.
Category: Social work (general)