AGBIS/BSA Box Set – Inclusion and support

Name: AGBIS/BSA Box Set – Inclusion and support
Start: 2025-06-05T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-05T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Online – Zoom

5 June 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Date: June 05, 2025
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Cost: BSA/AGBIS Full Member Rate: £135, Non-Member Rate:£270, BSA Full Member Box Set Rate: £850
Audience: School Governors
Platform: Zoom (online) – Seminar

Course outline:

This seminar will outline equality, diversity and inclusion and the relevant legal and regulatory frameworks for boarding schools, paying particular attention to how the role of the Governor fits within this. Ensuring EDI is embedded within the culture of the whole school, including pupils and staff, is an important part of the role of Governor. This webinar will consider how to implement change at strategic level, involve SLT and have effective oversight.

Training topics will include:

What is equality, diversity and inclusion, and why is it important?
How can Governors have effective strategic oversight?
Linking EDI to SLT responsibilities.

Learning outcomes

Increased understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion and how the role of Governor must engage with these
Suggested questions and activities to engage with the SLT in your school to review and develop an EDI culture
Recommended next steps for improvement and increased strategic importance.

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Other titles included:

AGBIS/BSA Box Set &#8211; Inclusion and support

1. Foundations for boarding school Governors – roles, responsibilities and collective governance	September 17, 2024
2. Safeguarding highlights for boarding Governors	October 3, 2024
3. Pastoral care in boarding schools for Governors	November 27, 2025
4. Monitoring and evaluation. Using data to support Governor oversight	January 22, 2025
5. Developing strategy	February 04, 2025
6. Crisis and serious care management. Expectations on Governors	July 2, 2025

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.

Richard Harman, Chief Executive, AGBIS

Richard Harman was educated at The King’s School, Worcester, followed by Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read English. Having spent two years working for an academic publisher, he decided his real vocation was in teaching. After five years at Marlborough College teaching English and Drama, during which time he also completed his PGCE at Exeter University, he spent 12 years at Eastbourne College. Progressing from Head of English to Housemaster of a Sixth Form girls’ house to member of the Senior Management Team, he then became Headmaster of Aldenham in September 2000 and thence to Uppingham in 2006. After a decade leading Uppingham and 32 years overall in teaching, he embarked on a third career as Chief Executive of AGBIS. Richard is much enjoying the challenges at AGBIS, having been Chairman of the Boarding Schools’ Association for 2011-12 and Chairman of HMC for 2014-15.