Opening words from Mark Adam Smith from Changing Futures Northumbria - motivation is from being the furious and curious or 'furiousity'! #LiberatingPublicServices

Save the date! 13 June 2024 - The Barracks, Stirling. We will be hosting a conference all about implementing change, improvement and innovation. Tickets will be available soon!

Brutal honesty & transparency is the start of any genuine change. Public services (including the NHS) in their current form are broken. Pretending otherwise to “bolster morale” will do the opposite. We are teetering on the brink & a total reset, not a positivity drive, is needed.

Today, CrossReach CEO Viv Dickenson writes in The Herald about the urgent need to act to prevent social care collapse. Read full article 👇 crossreach.org.uk/news/we-must-a… Coalition of Care & Support Providers Church of Scotland

(Screaming on the inside to wrap this up and move on) We've got time for one or two more reflections-

Calling commissioners, policy makers, economic development leads and social work teams in local authorities across the UK! Get along to this webinar on 20 May to hear how to build community wealth for better social care Social Value Engine Wrexham Council Book now events.humanitix.com/building-commu…

If you want to make social work and social care better come and work with us! Love evidence and data? We have a research vacancy. More about people and problem solving? Check out our development lead role! Iriss iriss.org.uk/about/vacancies

Great opportunity CIPD West Scotland Branch goodmoves.org myjobscotland for an HR Team Manager Key & Community Lifestyles joining a fantastic people focused team key.org.uk/Jobs/Job?Vacan…

We want to make social work and social care brilliant - and we are hiring.

📢We are recruiting for our Trauma Responsive Social Work Services Team Leader. They will lead a small team who will support social work services to adopt organisation and system wide change and embed trauma responsive social work practices across Scotland tinyurl.com/54zudfm8

What an incredibly engaging and illuminating event! We would like to thank all the incredible speakers for their generosity with their time and expertise. Also thank you to all who attended, the chat was almost as engaging as the talks! #RuralSocialWork24

So... when did this happen to you, and which piece of writing provoked your transformation into a reader? #reading #books #literature #stories

1/3 Today is a huge day for us at Simon Community Scotland as we will be opening a brand new safe place, a very special place for women experiencing homelessness. #homelessness #women #thanks

Following engagement with members, stakeholders & staff, today we launch our new Priorities. Our work to autumn '25 will focus on persuading decisionmakers to Recognise the True Value of Social Care. News story: tinyurl.com/2vyn8jxp More 👇 Rachel Cackett Key & Community Lifestyles Quarriers

Super to be at the Coalition of Care & Support Providers 25 yr celebration of collective voice in social care support last night! Looking back but also forward in hope for a more sustainable, respected and valued future for this essential lifechanging sector #ALifeNotAService #ChangeMakers

Heading back from a super session with Evaluation Support Scotland helping us Iriss get sorted on the difference we make and how to capture it! Thank you Martha and Gary for a fun and focussed session 🙌

⏰ There’s still time to get your ticket for our ‘Getting started with Human Learning Systems’ workshop on 20th June! 👉 What to expect: 🔍 Critical concepts 💫 Inspiring leaders 💪🏼 Develop your action plan ✅Sign up and secure your spot today. hubs.ly/Q02ypV8t0

An amazing presentation at our conference and lots to think about how we truly work collaboratively and in partnership! Read more here - prospercanada.org/News-Media/Blo…

Have you heard? Have you seen? Our #leadershipstories podcast series is more than half way through - catch up with Ron Cully Anna Fowlie 🕷 Brian Chittick Sara Redmond and Dee Fraser before episode 5 comes out on Friday! …tochangeleadershipstories.podbean.com

Relationship-based social work is something that we probably all had in mind when going into this profession. But how do we actually do it when people have been given no choice other than to have us in their lives. Free for members £40 non-members Book: buff.ly/3MlU4yU