About us...
OACP is
YOUR Care Association

for Oxfordshire

We're YOUR contact point, advocate and representative in the
Adult Social Care sector in Oxfordshire, regionally and nationally.

As YOUR membership organisation, we represent all Adult Social Care Providers across Oxfordshire and through our wider family, the Care Association Alliance, we take YOUR issues all the way to Government.

Our members include Care and Nursing Homes, Domiciliary Care (Home Care), Live-in-Care, Day Care, Supported Living, Shared Lives and many other Community and Charity support services.

Join us...and become an Exclusive Member today.!

Eddy McDowall

Eddy is our Chief Executive and has worked in adult social care for nearly 40 years in local government and also at the Department of Health and with the Local Government Association.
He has wide-ranging experience of leading partnership projects with diverse memberships.

Lisa Leah

Lisa is our Operations Manager overseeing OACP’s events and external partnerships and oversees delivery of our International Recruitment project.

Lisa joined OACP in April 2021 and has many years of working in
the hospitality sector.

Catherine Newport

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.

Jane Wood

Jane is our Marketing Manager and has an extensive design and marketing background, as well as knowledge and experience of working in the business and voluntary sectors. She leads OACP's marketing and promotions, including this website.

Fiona Florey

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 NCA.

Maria Ewulomi

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.

Angela McNally

Angie joined the OACP team in October 2022 supporting completion of the BOB ICS Digital Social Care Record survey. Angie leads the national large provider and new provider projects.

Kate McKeever

Kate 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.

Valerie Jarvis

Valerie joined OACP in October 2022 having extensive experience
working as a Registered Manager since 1991.

Rachel Adams

Rachel joined OACP in early November 2024 bringing experience of working with people with dementia, care home settings and supported housing.

Mike Corran

Joined us in May 2021 as
our 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. 

Liz Clements

Liz is Regional Operations Manager for Hartford 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.

John Cascone

John is Managing Director of Caremark (West Oxfordshire and Cherwell) and brings 30 years of sales and marketing knowledge to the Board.

Mark Collins

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.