TELL ME HOW THE IDEA FOR THE NURSERY CAME ABOUT.
I was invited by Belong to help them think about intergenerational provision and building a nursery into the design concept of one of their new villages. The initial idea was a co-located nursery, but together we developed a more ambitious integrated model.
I’m very clear when I talk to people this is not a co-located nursery. It goes further to allow for the spontaneous integration of children and older people, and not just ‘come along and we’ll do an activity together’.
This is about a new model, a new design of care provision for older people and younger children together. We’re not about taking the little ones to visit the older people a couple of times a week, this is about living life alongside each other.
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