Our new programme PACT is to run for 3 years and is aimed at:

• Enhancing and developing care staff skills by utilising creative arts in an educational format.
• Supporting the development of quality care for homes’ residents and day centre members.
• Using qualified tutors to deliver multi-facetted workshops to care staff, including I.T. as a major initiative seeking to develop new technology with the care staff.  Then through them ultimately reaching older people personally.
• Working with local secondary schools and encouraging their students to act as I.T. mentors to both care staff and residents.

We are indebted to the following funding bodies
Sainsburys Headley Trust
UK Online
Ernest Bailey Trust
Derbyshire County Council Intergenerational Service

Intergenerational work with groups of pupils from Highfield School Matlock, Lady Manners School Bakewell continues, with contacts at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Ashbourne.

We have to thank Cecelia Harris (Topic Social Care Manager) - Tom Cheshire & Stuart Bridden Highfield School teachers, for the success of the project to date.

The TOPIC model of good practice is continuing to be used in all current First Taste programmes.

Training Programme for Derbyshire County Council's care staff. Funded by DCC.