Social Care Community of Practice – 29 August 2024
Thursday, 29 August 2024, 3 – 5 pm AEST
August 2024 CoP
The Social Care Community of Practice (CoP) is a series of online meetings and events designed to develop a network of people and enterprises interested in business model innovation involving new models of ownership that empower consumers and workers in social care.
Our August 2024 Social Care Community of Practice meeting discussed:
Lifting the lid on more Care Together projects and building understanding about the Research and Evaluation element of the program
Clive Thompson, Director of CoSolve and Project Lead and Tina Whiffen and Virginia FitzClarence, Steering Committee Members, lifted the lid on their project – the Eurobodalla Community Care Co-op initiative.
Associate Professor Paul Thambar, Monash Business School and Director, Mutual Value Lab spoke on the Research and Evaluation element of the program.
The BCCM’s CEO, Melina Morrison, Care Together Program Director, Gillian McFee, and Care Together Program Manager, Michael Pilbrow, facilitated a discussion and Q&A.
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If you missed our past CoP webinars, you can watch them online.
Agenda
- Welcome to Country
- Care Together Program Update
- Program overview and purpose
- Implementation progress and achievements
- Setting the scene for Care Together: Lifting the lid on Care Together projects
- Eurobodalla Community Care Co-op project overview with Clive Thompson, Tina Whiffen and Virginia FitzClarence
- Research, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Care Together Program with Assoc Prof Paul Thambar, Monash University
- Q&A
- Closing comments
- Next Social Care Community of Practice (Thursday, 28 November 2024)
- Care Together 2024 in Review and Introduction to the Shared Services Secondary Co-op project
Guest speakers
Clive Thompson, Director of CoSolve and Project Lead, Eurobodalla Community Care Co-op initiative
Clive is a workplace relations lawyer and mediator. He is director of CoSolve, a company that provides services in an independent capacity to workplace parties.
He has been involved in assisting mutuals and co-ops charter their constitutions in recent years. His specific brief in the Care Together program is to support sole traders and other working in the care space in the Eurobodalla Shire on the South Coast as they explore the merits of forming a Community Care Co-op.
Associate Professor Paul Thambar, Monash Business School and Director, Mutual Value Lab
Paul Thambar is an Associate Professor with the Department of Accounting, Monash Business School and has a broad range of research interests in impact performance measurement, specifically in co-operatives and mutuals and non-profit organisations. A/Prof Paul Thambar is also the Director of the Mutual Value Lab established by the Monash Business School to build on its long term research collaboration with the Business Council of Cooperatives and Mutuals (BCCM) and the co-operative and mutuals sector. The Lab builds and extends Monash’s research collaboration with the BCCM, which has resulted in the development of the ground breaking impact performance measurement framework, the Mutual Value Measurement (MVM) Framework©. Paul leads research engagement on the Care Together Program as the research, monitoring and evaluation partner.
About the Social Care Community of Practice
The Social Care Community of Practice (CoP) is a series of online meetings and events designed to develop a network of people and enterprises interested in business model innovation involving new models of ownership that empower consumers and workers in social care.
These collaborative meetings enable the sharing of information and resources about co-operatives and mutual enterprises fostering a spirit of self-help and innovation in social care. Being part of the CoP is an opportunity to learn from other co-operatives and mutuals both in Australia and overseas.
Emerging from the Action to Empower Report and Roundtable held on 25 August 2021 the CoP is designed as a place for sharing ideas and learning from co-op experts about how the co-operative and mutual business model can help transform social care services.
Terms of Reference
- The purpose of the Social Care Community of Practice (CoP) is to develop a community of practitioners to share knowledge, learnings, and experiences about how to establish co-operatives and mutual enterprises in social care.
- Social Care CoP members will consist of people who are interested in knowing more about co-operatives and mutuals and understanding how this business model can apply either to existing enterprises or start-ups.
- The Social Care CoP will start as a self-help initiative based on open sharing of ideas and knowledge. As commitment grows, and as resources become available, the aim is for this to evolve to foster deeper learning and application through the establishment of a Mutual Support Program for some targeted innovation projects in thin markets.
- Social Care CoP members should ensure regular representation at the CoP meetings.
- BCCM will provide a secretariat function for the Social Care CoP.
- BCCM will invite practitioners to join the Social Care CoP based on a registration of interest.
- BCCM members may request to join the CoP.
- Following two introductory sessions led by BCCM, the CoP will co-design a program of meetings and/or events that will be promoted by BCCM and members of the CoP.
- BCCM commits to organising three free CoP meetings annually with an agenda circulated prior to the meeting. Other events will be held on a cost-recovery basis reflecting the shared interests of the CoP.
- Discussions and sharing of information will be done under the Chatham House Rule.
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