Safeguarding against sexual violence and harassment in boarding schools

October 14 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Date: October 14, 2024
Time: 13:00 – 15:00
Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 170, Non-member – £270
Audience: Boarding house practitioners
Platform: Zoom (online) – half day Seminar

Course outline:

This half seminar will take delegates through the latest statutory guidance now in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 around sexual violence and harassment in schools, considering in particular the boarding environment. `Everyone’s Invited` and other disclosures highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment, both adult-on-child and child-on-child, in education settings.  The subsequent Ofsted review demonstrated the importance of work around this area.

The boarding environment can provide additional areas of vulnerability. This seminar will support delegates in considering best practice in this area and their work in their settings and communities.

Training topics will include:

Finding and understanding the latest guidance
Embedding a proactive culture in your setting
Hearing pupil and survivor voices and managing allegations.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will leave with a clearer understanding of the application of sexual violence and harassment guidance
Delegates will understand the specific focus required in boarding
Increased confidence in managing allegations and supporting survivors and pupils.

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Speaker:

David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

David is the BSA Director and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.