Transcripts of Iriss.fm

Transcript: The politics of social work

An understanding of social work's political dimension is essential and that the failure to recognise this has been harmful both to the social work profession and to service users.

Category: Social work (general)

Published on April 17, 2013 | 34 minutes | 7092 words | Iriss

Transcript: Recording and measuring outcomes: Carr Gomm

An introduction to Carr Gomm's conversation-based outcome measurement tool. A system designed to capture and track the personal outcomes of the people they support, and link these to the wider local and national outcomes.

Category: Outcomes

Published on April 10, 2013 | 5 minutes | 1055 words | Iriss

Transcript: A bed for the night? Austerity, social work and resistance

Iain Ferguson gives his inaugural lecture on the impact of welfare reform on people's lives, and argues that a different kind of social work is required to respond to the crisis.

Category: Welfare reform

Published on March 27, 2013 | 30 minutes | 6188 words | Iriss

Transcript: Recovery 2020: A vision achieved? SRN 5th national gathering

The main themes that emerged included the importance of relationships and working with, and empowering individuals and communities to make recovery a reality by 2020.

Category: Mental health

Published on March 18, 2013 | 23 minutes | 4760 words | Iriss

Transcript: New technologies and child protection

The event explored the challenges of, and solutions to, protecting children, given the emergence of social media and other technologies.

Category: Child protection

Published on March 1, 2013 | 32 minutes | 6813 words | Iriss

Transcript: Looked after young people and home supervision requirements

Young people who are looked after at home or are under a Home Supervision Requirement make up the largest proportion of young people who are looked after.

Category: Young people

Published on February 7, 2013 | 36 minutes | 7569 words | Iriss

Transcript: Taking the first steps with self-directed support

A project that ran during the summer of 2012, was designed to introduce people to the processes involved in self directed support in a way that felt safe and not risky.

Category: Self-directed support

Published on January 31, 2013 | 25 minutes | 5149 words | Iriss

Transcript: Widening access to higher education for looked after young people

Review progress in relation to supporting students from a looked after background.

Category: Young people

Published on January 25, 2013 | 43 minutes | 9038 words | Iriss

Transcript: Educating looked after young people: Aspire Scotland

Using computers and the internet with looked after young people. Aspire Scotland provides high quality residential care and education for children and young people aged between eight and seventeen.

Category: Young people

Published on January 24, 2013 | 17 minutes | 3577 words | Iriss

Transcript: At Home Abroad exhibition

In the exhibition, children from four schools - migrants and non-migrants - share their views of the migratory experience through photographs, poems, objects, painting and collage.

Category: Migration

Published on December 12, 2012 | 20 minutes | 4096 words | Iriss