BPP at Work

2008
Second stage of Benchmarking conducted.

July 2007
Results of BPP Benchmarking are compiled and published.

May 2007
Members vote to introduce a nominal annual membership fee to ensure the continued maintenance of the BPP Website.

January 2007
The Southern Best Practice Alliance receives a grant to assist them in marketing their five organisations jointly. This marketing will include submitting joint tenders for large contracts. These organisations believe that by working co-operatively together they can increase their opportunities to tender for larger contacts and promote business services in general.

November 2006
Eight member organisations participate in the BPP Organisational Effectiveness Profiling Project. “Effectiveness” is defined as ‘focussing on the right things’ as opposed to “efficiency”, which is ‘doing them well’. This project consisted of Board Members, management and staff of all levels completing an online survey about how they view their organisation. See BPPEOP Final Consolidated Report for full details of the project.

May 2006
The “members only” section of the Best Practice Partnership website is password protected and a new Memorandum of Understanding is developed incorporating the Code of Ethical Conduct.

September 2005
The Southern Best Practice Alliance was formed consisting of five Business Services within the South Eastern Suburbs of Melbourne. The Alliance was formed to enable joint marketing/business opportunities to be utilised to develop larger contacts. The members are: Marriott Support Services – Lewis Industries, SEARCH, Wallara Australia, Woorinyan and Ozanam Enterprises. The objectives of the Alliance are to:

• foster
• pursue
• to increase
• to promote

The Alliance was formed on a voluntary capacity by like minded business service providers who recognised that by working co-operatively together they can increase their opportunities to tender for larger contracts, promote business services in general and increase employment options for supported employees.

Why Join the BPP
• Across the country disability service providers share or have shared similar issues and challenges.

• Membership provides access to the ‘Members Only’ section of the website which contains or provides advice where to obtain:

• examples of best practice ie; Mission Statements, Policies, Benchmarking etc.
• details of members willing to provide mentoring assistance
• newsletters, minutes of meetings and information on workshops to be held
• a list of reputable suppliers
• ability to request information/discussion
• links to other sites relevant to disability service providers and business in general

Members are encouraged to form their own regional partnerships and utilise the one central website for the dissemination of information.

The Best Practice Partnership is excellent way of promoting and encouraging continuous improvement, to raise the standard of disability service providers.

Member organisations have the opportunity to drive future reforms from within the disability sector and achieve best practice outcomes for their supported clients and employees.