Boarding box set – Inspection

November 12 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Date: November 12, 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, BSA Full Member Box Set – £650
Audience: Head/Principal, Deputy Head/Vice-Principal, Governors, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff, DSL
Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

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.

The session will give an overview of how to prepare for inspection, and is suitable for those being inspected under any of the UK or international frameworks. Key principles of auditing and assessing boarding provision will be discussed, which delegates will be able to reference against their specific inspection and auditing requirements.

Training topics will include:

Preparing for inspection of boarding provision
Developing appropriate policies and procedures
Key inspection principles.

Learning outcomes:

Increase knowledge inspection processes
Improve compliance of relevant policies and procedures
Recording and reporting key outcomes to the inspectors.

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Other titles in this series:

Boarding box set &#8211; Inspection

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 11, 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

Speakers:

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.

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.