<div>At more than 14,000 active member organisations, Bundesverband privater Anbieter sozialer Dienste e. V. (bpa) (German Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services), is Germany’s largest association representing private providers of social services. The bpa organises outpatient and (partial) inpatient care facilities, care for the disabled and child and youth welfare services under private sponsorship.bpa members are responsible for about 465,000 jobs and some 23,000 apprenticeship places. Investments in the care infrastructure are approximately 31 billion euros.Association historyThe bpa was founded in 1964; the branch federal office is based in Berlin. Since 1989, the bpa has been a founding member of the European Confederation of Care Home Organisations (E.C.H.O.), the European Association of Private Care Home Organisations, which has its registered office in Brussels and whose Vice President is bpa President Bernd Meurer. The bpa Employers’ Association was founded in 2015 to represent bpa members’ labour law and collective bargaining interests.Association structureThe bpa is organised in 16 regional groups that cover all German federal states and whose regional branch offices are usually located in the state capital. Bernd Meurer has headed the seven-member executive committee since 1997.In addition to the voluntary structure, which applies at both federal and state level, there is a full-time structure with more than 200 employees in 18 offices nationwide.MembersAt about 7,400 outpatient care facilities, which care for some 420,000 people in need, and 6,700 inpatient care facilities with some 390,000 places, the bpa represents more than one in three care facilities throughout Germany. The majority of members are typical medium-sized companies, whether as a care service with 25 employees or as a care home with 70 to 80 places. As a recognised provider of the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ), an extracurricular youth education programme, the bpa is able to offer many young people a year of social education and orientation in most German federal states.MembershipsMemberships in other organisations including: Bundesverband deutscher Mittelstand e.V. - BM - Wir Eigentümerunternehmer, Bundesverband der Dienstleistungswirtschaft (BDWi), Kuratorium Deutsche Altershilfe (KDA), Deutscher Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge (DV), European Confederation of Care Home Organisations (E.C.H.O.), Institut der Deutschen Wirtschaft Cologne</div>

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