How it started
History
In 2003, the Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work Education (SIESWE) was established as a sector-wide collaboration of the nine Scottish universities teaching social work, under the chair, Professor Joyce Lishman, of RGU with the objective of bringing about transformational change in the education and training of Scotland's future social workers
In 2007, SIESWE changed its name to Iriss which reflected an extension of the scope to include the social care workforce.
From Wikipedia’s article on Iriss, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2