Speakers
Camille Leavold
Jennifer Pearl
Olive Pascha
Panel Q&A
For nearly three decades, Camille Leavold, as the CEO of Abbots Care, has focused on improving client well-being, workforce development, and operational efficiency through technology. Her understanding of the sector's challenges and her dedication to innovative solutions have led Abbots Care to deliver quality personalised homecare services. The company has twice achieved an 'Outstanding' rating by CQC since 2019 under her leadership. Camille led on the development of the Abbots Care Wellbeing App, an innovation to empower, support, reward and celebrate the workforce. Her passion for technology extends beyond operational efficiency. It is about enhancing human connections and ensuring that care is compassionate and personalised.
Jennifer believes that, if you have the right support, anything is possible. She believes in using the lived experience of disability in shaping services. When everything comes together she can literally fly a microlight or race at Silverstone.
Jennifer is on the National Co-Production Advisory Group (NCAG) of Think Local Act Personal, where at national and local level we co-produce services. She works as an Expert by Experience for the Care Quality Commission.
Jennifer is also an ambassador for Inclusion Barnet, a Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisation and a Project Advisor for Kent University on their research on Cost Benefit of Domiciliary Care.
Olive is a London-based director and writer for theatre and film. Since 2016, she has directed across the UK, Russia, and India, developing new work. Alongside her creative practice, she has spent seven years as a part-time carer, an experience that deeply informs her storytelling. She is currently developing a play about domiciliary care with Arts Council support, seeking to elevate the beauty of the mundane and offer a nuanced portrayal of homecare. Her work is driven by a curiosity about human relationships, everyday life, and the ways we make sense of our worlds.
Kathryn is an ex-NHS clinician, a mum of three, a writer and a care worker. A runner up in the Wasafiri International New Writing Prize and winner of the Mslexia Memoir of the Year, her first book, Every Kind of People, was published in 2024 and was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and Listeners’ Choice for that year. It tells of the challenges, joy, and satisfaction that Kathryn found in care work when she first took it up as a profession. Kathryn is currently working on a writing project that explores the transformative experience of bringing nature into the lives of those living in nursing homes and continues to work in care in her native Norfolk.