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Registration is open for two free webinars: 'Curiosity before competence:Cultural humility with Gypsy/Traveller families...
10/06/2026

Registration is open for two free webinars:

'Curiosity before competence:Cultural humility with Gypsy/Traveller families' 23 June 12 - 13:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curiosity-before-competencecultural-humility-with-gypsytraveller-families-tickets-1991038970157?aff=social

and

'The strengths and pressures of rural social work placements' 25 June 13 - 14:00

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-strengths-and-pressures-of-rural-social-work-placements-tickets-1990548598442?aff=social

Register your place today and follow us on Eventbrite for future event updates.

What should underpin all forms of practice, whatever the setting, is a Human Rights approach. This resource highlights t...
08/06/2026

What should underpin all forms of practice, whatever the setting, is a Human Rights approach. This resource highlights the denial of identity, forced assimilation, racial harassment, daily discrimination, and a lack of understanding and respect for culture and differences, that are all reported as regular experiences of Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers.

Find the Insight here - https://lnkd.in/eMZ2Ux9P

For

04/06/2026

🗄 Opening the Archive: Heatherbank Museum of Social Work

We are delighted to see this piece in The National, the result of a year-long labour of love by Neil Ballantyne of the Open Polytechnic in New Zealand and Glasgow Caledonian University archivist Heather Panayiotaki.

GBPT, social care charity IRISS and the Scottish Council for Archives have supported the project, which emerged from a series of webinars for Glasgow Doors Open Day in 2024 exploring the Home Children movement in Glasgow.

That collaboration led to a second project, examining the impact of the pioneering, but now largely forgotten, Heatherbank Museum of Social Work in Milngavie. Led by Neil Ballantyne, the team secured funding from the Open Polytechnic to open up the Heatherbank archive, now held at Glasgow Caledonian University.

📩 We would be delighted to hear from anyone who has recollections of the museum, whether as visitors, former volunteers, neighbours or family and friends. Please contact [email protected] with the subject line 'Remembering Heatherbank'.

Read the article here: https://www.thenational.scot/culture/26157134.scottish-home-became-worlds-museum-social-work/

Iriss Scottish Council on Archives Open Polytechnic Glasgow Caledonian University

03/06/2026
03/06/2026

A snippet from our podcast from the archive - 'Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history: Davie Donaldson' for

01/06/2026

To start we'd love to share this video based on our pictorial history from 2017 that set out to tell the story of Gypsy Travellers in Scotland starting in the 10th century. It is a vivid look at an often ignored history.

Find it here - https://buff.ly/SG7Njk9

We have two new reports from our Ethical Commissioning project available now! Working across local authority teams and I...
28/05/2026

We have two new reports from our Ethical Commissioning project available now!

Working across local authority teams and Involving Supported People in Commissioning – A guide for anyone involved in commissioning and procurement of social care services

Available at https://iriss.org.uk/project/ethical-commissioning-programme-ascec/

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