I am delighted to let everyone know that the new Iriss ASPire Resource Hub has now been formally launched and is available to use. You can find the Hub at ASPire Hub
The Hub is an opportunity to share ASP resources with everyone with an interest in ASP.
The Hub is a place for everyone working in Adult Support and Protection in Scotland to access and share resources. It is regularly updated and feedback is welcome as well as any suggestions for new additions. There is an option to do a free text search, if you know exactly or approximately what you are looking for. In addition, there is also the option to search under Categories – the top ten are featured. There is also a featured resource – currently this is “Good practice for effective participation by the adult in Adult Support and Protection case conferences”.
Helpfully the Hub also features a short introduction video on how it can be used. The hard work on the Hub was all done by other Iriss colleagues – the technical stuff is definitely not my forte! However, I have been looking through my archives and also encouraging colleagues from across the ASP Community to think about the local ASP linked resources they may have to hand and consider whether these could usefully be shared on the ASPire Hub. You can request how your resource can be used by others – to being fully adaptable, adapted with credit to the original authors, or to be used for information only etc. This information, along with a short descriptor is included for every resource. It really should assist the ASP Community in learning from each other. Feedback from users so far, has been really positive!
Another really positive new development has been the development of a new joint Child Protection and Adult Support and Protection – Learning Review Community of Practice. This new joint Group will be exploring ways to ensure that we do all we can to proactively learn from Child and Adult Learning Reviews. A Learning Review is usually commissioned when there have been adverse impacts for a child or adult. Sadly, in many (although not all) cases the child or adult may have died. Learning Reviews seek to find out about the circumstances of the adverse impacts and identify helpful learning that can be shared, to capitalise on any good practice and to drive improvements in any areas where these are required. Up until this point, this has been something discussed separately by Child Protection colleagues and Adult Support and Protection colleagues and all agree we can work better together – as the issues are often similar across the two types of Learning Review. We also want to use the Community of Practice to explore ways in which we can better share any learning nationally. This would help us all to build on learning from previous Learning Reviews and move away from feeling that we are constantly coming across the same types of issues (for children and adults) across the Country. Often, the only consolation for families of those who have been adversely affected by circumstances in which there was often multi-agency involvement, is the thought that lessons will be learned and the issues faced by their loved one will not reoccur. I am hopefully the new Community of Practice will start to address some of these issues.