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July 2007
Results of BPP Benchmarking are compiled
and published, click here to view.
June 2007
A criteria for membership
is formalised and a membership application process is established.
May 2007
Members vote to introduce a nominal annual
membership fee to ensure the continued maintenance of the BPP Website.
March – April 2007
BPP Benchmarking Survey is sent out to 260
disability business services nationally inviting them to participate.
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.
January 2006
Best Practice Partnership secured funding for another 18 months
from FaCSIA. The major focus will be benchmarking, further development
of the website, and training for a core group of participants in
internal auditing.
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:
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.
For further details contact projectofficer@bestpractice.org.au
or
Phone Debbie on (03) 51341266 or mobile (0408) 303833.
October 2005
A 2 day introductory Internal Auditor Training Course was held in
Morwell. Seventeen participants attended from member organisations.
The second day included a site visit to Latrobe Valley Enterprises
which gave participants hands on experience of auditing another
organisation.
March 2005 to September
2005
The BPP are represented on the FOFMS DEA
Working Group and the User Acceptance Testing Group by their project
officer. This provided invaluable direct assistance and feedback
during the difficult implementation of the FOFMS system. This has
been an excellent networking opportunity and information has also
been shared with the BPP by organisations participating in these
groups.
May 2005 to August 2005
The members of the Partnership recently worked together to quickly
formulate a transition plan to accommodate 35 supported employees
displaced by the liquidation of a business service in Gippsland
for three months. The transition plan allowed time for CRS to conduct
interviews with each employee, enabling them to choose the type
of service most suitable to their individual needs.
February 2005
Two ‘1 Page Business Plan & The Balanced Score Card’
workshops. Both workshops were very well attended by 23 participants
from member organisations. The theme of the workshops was “Managing
Change”, which is the challenge facing all disability service
providers.
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