Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services

Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services
legal form	registered association
Seat	Berlin
founding	1964
place	Berlin
president	Bernd Meurer
Vice President	Susanne Pletowski
Board	see managing director
Directory	18 branches
executive Director	Herbert Mauel ; Bernd Tews
Members	over 11,000
Website	www.bpa.de

The Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services e. V. (bpa) is an advocacy group for private providers of social services in Germany.

mandate

According to the statutes , the interest group pursues the following goals:

Representation of the interests of private old people's and nursing homes; of private outpatient services; the private institutions of the disabled as well as children and youth welfare as well as the other private social services towards legislators, authorities, funds and associations as well as towards political parties.

Members

According to the association, more than 11,000 private outpatient and (partially) inpatient care facilities, assistance for the disabled and child and youth welfare are organized. The bpa thus represents more than every third care facility nationwide. The vast majority of members are medium-sized companies , including many family businesses. Typical bpa members are e.g. B. Nursing services with up to 10 employees and owner-managed inpatient facilities with approx. 70 places.

history

The federal association was founded in 1964. The headquarters of the federal office is in Berlin. Since 1989, the bpa has been a founding member of the European Confederation of Care Home Organizations (ECHO), the European association of private facility management associations based in Brussels , whose vice-president has been bpa President Bernd Meurer since 2010 . Meurer previously held the office of ECHO President from 2006.

In spring 2007 the federal association opened an office in Brussels.

In 2015 the bpa founded the bpa employers' association . V. co-founded. The former Federal Minister of Economics Rainer Brüderle took over the chairmanship .

Association structure

The association is organized in 16 regional groups, the regional offices of which are usually located in the state capital. Bernd Meurer has headed the seven-person presidium since 1997. In addition to the voluntary structure, which exists at federal and state level, there is a full-time structure with around 110 employees in 18 offices, headed by the managing directors Herbert Mauel and Bernd Tews.

Memberships in other organizations exist at

Federal Association of the Service Industry (BDWi),
Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe (KDA),
German Association for Public and Private Welfare (DV),
European Confederation of Care Home Organizations (ECHO).

Web links

Association website

Individual evidence

↑ Announcement of the public list of the registration of associations and their representatives. from May 3, 2010. In: Federal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Bundesanzeiger. Number 77a, volume 62, issued on May 26, 2010, ISSN 0720-6100 (Association 639, PDF file ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), 4.6 MB).
↑ ^a ^b Information from the European Movement Germany ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
↑ bpa welcomes the 6,500th member institution / largest interest group for private care in Germany continues to grow

[Bekanntmachung-1] Announcement of the public list of the registration of associations and their representatives. from May 3, 2010. In: Federal Ministry of Justice (Ed.): Bundesanzeiger. Number 77a, volume 62, issued on May 26, 2010, ISSN 0720-6100 (Association 639, PDF file ( Memento from December 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), 4.6 MB).

[EBD-2] Information from the European Movement Germany ( Memento from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[3] bpa welcomes the 6,500th member institution / largest interest group for private care in Germany continues to grow