Boarding box set – Safeguarding

December 6 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Date: December 06, 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Cost: BSA Full Member – £90, BSA Additional Full Member – £45 BSA Affiliate Member – £120, BSA Additional Affiliate Member – £45, Non-member – £180
Audience: All safeguarding and pastoral staff in schools
Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline:

BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed for boarding staff and school leaders giving them a broad overview series of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series would be ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’.

This set will be £650 for a member series place.

This webinar will explore how to understand and evaluate the safeguarding “culture” in schools. It will consider how to develop and promote appropriate practice and to evaluate the key indicators.

Training topics will include:

What is a safeguarding culture?
How to promote an effective and impactful culture
How to respond to negative cultures
Evaluating and reviewing progress against key indicators.

Learning outcomes:

Attending this webinar will give delegates a clearer understanding of the importance of developing, nurturing and promoting an appropriate safeguarding culture. Delegates will consider the impact of this on promoting best outcomes for the children and young people in their care, and an appreciation of the factors which impact on those outcomes.

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Other titles in this series:

Boarding box set – Safeguarding

1. Boarding box set – sector overview and market analysis	September 27, 2024
2. Boarding box set – Inspection	November 12, 2024
3. Boarding box set – Safeguarding	December 06, 2024
4. Boarding box set – understanding UKVI compliance	January 16, 2025
5. Boarding box set – Marketing considerations for boarding schools	February 03, 2025
6. Boarding box set – EDI in boarding	March 03, 2025
7. Boarding box set – Wellbeing and staff support	March 10, 2025
8. Boarding box set – boarding house management	June 27, 2025

Speaker:

Dale Wilkins, Executive Director Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s training programme, including both day seminars and accredited training courses. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter and has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit, which he first produced in 2002, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding.

For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board.