When many older adults were sat indoors last year, isolating during lockdown, a group of over-55-year-olds from south Devon were putting on their wellies, splashing about in mud and building friendships with a group of children and their childminders on the ancient site of Orchard Forest School in Torbay, south Devon.
Another group of care home residents were shaking maracas and singing along to old-time favourites and classic nursery rhymes with pre-school-aged children, led by musicians from the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
These are just some of the initiatives devised by Torbay council to safely bring together adult care and childcare in the face of Covid.
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