Managing suitability to board

• Date: June 09, 2025
• Time: 10:30 – 12:30
• Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
• Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff and teaching staff, Medical staff, DSL, School governors, guardians
• Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline:

There are many things a school may need to consider if a student is not ‘fit to board’. This may include the young person’s own safety and wellbeing, alongside others in a boarding house. Increasingly, schools have found it useful to write a ‘fit to board’ policy and this course is designed to help them consider if this would be helpful in their context, and how to create a policy.

Training topics will include:

• The reasons why people may not be ‘fit to board’.
• Balancing needs in a boarding house.
• Providing continuity of education and other legal considerations.
• Working with parents.
• Considerations when writing policy.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand some reasons why a young person might not be fit to board.
• Know the legal framework around education provision.
• Be guided in producing a school policy on fitness to board.

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Speakers:

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.