About us

OACP is a membership organisation for all providers of adult social care in Oxfordshire.

Our members are from:

  • Care homes
  • Community support services
  • Home care
  • Voluntary Sector

We are a contact point for all social care providers and share and promote good practice through our networks and learning exchanges.

We provide information and advice on funding and business opportunities.

We provide training and development opportunities for your staff and your business.

We act as a representative body for providers within Oxfordshire, meeting with commissioners of services, and standing up for adult social care to promote your services.

We are improving communication between the Council and the Oxfordshire care sector.

We help develop the adult social care market in Oxfordshire and contribute to the commissioning and delivery of personalised services.

We offer existing providers advice about business opportunities and market conditions in Oxfordshire.

We will promote good news stories across a range of media channels to support a positive view of the sector.

Our strength is your involvement

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Meet OACP

Board of Directors

Mike Corran: Chair

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Mike joined the OACP team in May 2021 as the Independent Chair. He previously had a 35-year career in retail banking with senior roles in procurement, leading major change programmes, building external partnerships and crisis management. Mike has lived in Oxfordshire for over 40 years. When he can, he likes to be active outdoors tending his garden, playing golf, umpiring hockey and cycling.


Liz Clements

Liz is Peripatetic Manager for Sanctuary Care in the Home Counties. Liz has an extensive track record of clinical leadership and end of life expertise and leads our End of Life Network.


Mark Collins

Mark Collins, Business Director for Oxford Private Care and Chair of OACP

Mark is Business Director at Oxford Private Care, a family-run business, and brings an understanding of domiciliary care delivery and wide-ranging business experience.


Chris Ingram

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Chris is CEO at Style Acre, an Oxfordshire-based provider of supported living services for people with a learning disability.


Patsy Just

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Patsy is Operations Director at Orders of St John Care Trust, a large provider of care homes and extra care housing support across Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Lincolnshire.


Katy Trueman

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Katy is Director and Manager of Enable Health Ltd, a local home care provider that has delivered care services in Oxfordshire since 2013.


Core Team

Eddy McDowall: Chief Executive

Eddy has worked in adult social care for over 30 years, 26 of them in local government and also at Department of Health and Local Government Association. He has wide-ranging experience of  leading partnership projects with diverse memberships.


Catherine Newport: Administrator

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Cath is our Administrator and first contact for OACP. Cath is our go-to person for sorting out our IT issues and has excellent knowledge of all things Apple and Microsoft.


Lisa Leah: Operations Manager

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Lisa joined OACP in April 2021 as a part of our Better Security Better Care team supporting care providers to complete the Digital Security Protection Toolkit.

Lisa is our Operations Manager overseeing OACP’s events and external partnerships.


Jane Wood: Marketing Manager

Jane leads our engagement. She has an extensive design and marketing background, as well as knowledge and experience of working in the business and voluntary sectors. She leads the design and publication of Talking Care and Proud to Care Oxfordshire development.


Fiona Florey: Project Manager

Fiona is our Project Manager, who successfully set up and led our Trusted Assessor Service before leading our delivery of the BOB-wide Better Security Better Care programme funded by Digital Social Care  via RNHA

 


Wider Team

Angela McNally: Project Worker

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Angela joined the OACP team in October 2022 supporting completion of the BOB ICS Digital Social Care Record survey.


Hannah Cantellow: Project Worker

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Hannah is our Project Worker, working specifically on our Data security Protection Toolkit project bringing cyber security and NHS systems to our Thames Valley-wide care providers.


Maria Ewulomi: Project Worker

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Maria joined OACP in April 2021 as a part of our Better Security Better Care team supporting care providers to complete the Digital Security Protection Toolkit.


Val Jarvis: Trusted Assessor

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Val is our Trusted Assessor working with care homes across Oxfordshire. Val has worked as Registered Manager since 1991.