Home News and resources

News and resources

Featured

BCCM launches social care program

Care Together is a new education, training and advisory program to start and grow more co-ops and mutuals in social care. It will help improve the quality and diversity of services provided to older Australians, people living with disability, and veterans in remote and regional areas and other areas of high need.

Read more
Care working knealing next to older woman in wheelchair in the hallway of a historic home. Open front door in background.
Michael Pilbrow on behalf of the BCCM at the 11th Asia Pacific Cooperative Ministers Conf speaking
30 April 2024

Michael Pilbrow: Championing co-operative collaboration in Jordan

Michael Pilbrow is representing the BCCM and Australian co-operatives in Jordan at the 11th Asia...

Inspiring young girl who deals with a disability.
29 April 2024

Design and implementation of a graduated risk-proportionate regulatory model

BCCM submission to the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce.

Care working knealing next to older woman in wheelchair in the hallway of a historic home. Open front door in background.
26 April 2024

Worker co-operatives and social care

While still a small sector in Australia, worker co-operatives are significant players in the delivery...

19 March 2024

Care Together e-news March 2024

The Care Together Program continues to grow, with a healthy project pipeline in place and...

11 March 2024

Submission in response to Aged Care Bill 2023 Exposure Draft

BCCM submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the Exposure...

Wagin stakeholder workshop 13 February 2024
26 February 2024

Care Together visits Wagin, Western Australia

Gillian McFee (Care Together Program Director) and Dr Peter Westoby (Care Together Co-op Development Adviser) recently met with...

Be Caring team receiving their award
20 November 2023

UK’s largest employee-owned social care provider wins prestigious awards

The largest employee-owned social care provider, Be Caring, was announced as the winner of two...

United Nations
16 November 2023

UN General Assembly adopts new resolution on cooperatives in social development

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new resolution on cooperatives in social development calling for...

UFS Dispensaries
6 November 2023

Regional health gap – BCCM responds to Westfund report

The BCCM welcomes a report by not for profit health insurer Westfund, which highlights the...

Michael Pilbrow on behalf of the BCCM at the 11th Asia Pacific Cooperative Ministers Conf speaking
30 April 2024

Michael Pilbrow: Championing co-operative collaboration in Jordan

Michael Pilbrow is representing the BCCM and Australian co-operatives in Jordan at the 11th Asia...

19 March 2024

Care Together e-news March 2024

The Care Together Program continues to grow, with a healthy project pipeline in place and...

Wagin stakeholder workshop 13 February 2024
26 February 2024

Care Together visits Wagin, Western Australia

Gillian McFee (Care Together Program Director) and Dr Peter Westoby (Care Together Co-op Development Adviser) recently met with...

Be Caring team receiving their award
20 November 2023

UK’s largest employee-owned social care provider wins prestigious awards

The largest employee-owned social care provider, Be Caring, was announced as the winner of two...

United Nations
16 November 2023

UN General Assembly adopts new resolution on cooperatives in social development

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a new resolution on cooperatives in social development calling for...

UFS Dispensaries
6 November 2023

Regional health gap – BCCM responds to Westfund report

The BCCM welcomes a report by not for profit health insurer Westfund, which highlights the...

Elderly woman and young man enjoying morning tea together
1 September 2023

Australia’s care delivery needs intergenerational models

The release last week of the Federal Government’s much-anticipated Intergenerational Report is good news for...

24 August 2023

PhD Scholarship – Mutual Value Lab-BCCM Care Together project

The Business Council of Co-operatives and Mutuals’ Care Together Program research partner, Monash Business School’s...

Senior woman portrait shoot, close up of eyes, nose
21 August 2023

Worker co-ops in health care: Lessons from the field

Worker co-ops in health care: Lessons from the field - Non Profit Quarterly article examining...

Care working knealing next to older woman in wheelchair in the hallway of a historic home. Open front door in background.
26 April 2024

Worker co-operatives and social care

While still a small sector in Australia, worker co-operatives are significant players in the delivery...

Group of Hands Together⁠
20 October 2023

People powered growth

People-powered growth captures the first reported findings of the EO Knowledge Programme, a collaboration of...

smiling senior woman with glasses, short hair and a striped tshirt
29 August 2023

New Care Together Program flyer

The Care Together Program digital flyer provides an at at-a-glance overview of the Care Together...

Richard Warner, man in black t-shirt, headshot
19 May 2023

Peter Westoby’s conversations with Richard Warner

Three conversations with Richard Warner. Nundah Co-op is a great example of how a community...

Homecare provider helps elderly patient with mobility
10 May 2021

Action to Empower report

Why Australia needs more co-operative and mutual enterprises in health, community, and social services

Carer holding hand of patient wearing gold wedding band
30 January 2021

Profitability, Growth, and Influence

Profitability, Growth, and Influence: Elevating the home care cooperative sector with formalized national collaboration report.

two women lauching laughing while sitting closely on park bench
30 October 2017

The Cooperative Solution to the Caregiver Crisis: A National Strategy Analysis

US report: The Cooperative Solution to the Caregiver Crisis: A National Strategy Analysis from the...

Two shapes like inverted Cs with full of photos of people receiving care
18 December 2016

Providing Care through Cooperatives

Global mapping of the provision of care through cooperatives

Dr Guy Turnbull presenting at Social Care Expert Forum in Canberra Australia about high performance in social care in the United Kingdom.
15 February 2016

High performance in social care in the UK

Dr Guy Turnbull talks at Social Care Expert Forum in Canberra Australia about high performance...

Inspiring young girl who deals with a disability.
29 April 2024

Design and implementation of a graduated risk-proportionate regulatory model

BCCM submission to the NDIS Provider and Worker Registration Taskforce.

11 March 2024

Submission in response to Aged Care Bill 2023 Exposure Draft

BCCM submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care in response to the Exposure...

Rearview shot of a group of seniors sitting together on a bench out in the garden
11 September 2023

A new model for regulating Aged Care: Details of the proposed new model – Consultation Paper 2

The BCCM provided additional comment in response to Consultation Paper 2 on A new model...

Young boy playing with building blocks with carer
30 August 2023

NDIS Review: Why Aren’t NDIS Markets Working?

Care Together submission to the NDIS Review, addressing the fourth challenge from the NDIS Review:...

two women lauching laughing while sitting closely on park bench
27 June 2023

National Care and Support Economy Strategy

BCCM submission to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on the National Care and...

Carer holding hand of patient wearing gold wedding band
26 June 2023

A new model for regulating aged care

BCCM submission to the Department of Health and Aged Care's consultation on a new model...

A multi-ethnic team of doctors and nurses stand in a line in a hospital corridor and smile directly at the camera.
9 May 2022

Study on Indirect Employment in Aged Care

BCCM's submission providing information on the role co-ops can play in workforce development in aged...

Senior woman portrait shoot, close up of eyes, nose
20 November 2020

Aged Care Royal Commission

BCCM's submission highlights the potential of the co-operative and mutual sector to help support investment...

mother and father hugging son in front of trees photo
31 May 2019

NDIS Thin Markets Project – response to discussion paper

Co-operative models can help the NDIS deliver on its promise of participant choice and control.

Are you working on a community-led care solution where you live?

Explore the potential of co-operative and mutual structures to enhance diversity and choice in health, community and social services.
Find out more about co-ops and mutuals