Boarding box set – understanding UKVI compliance

Name: Boarding box set – understanding UKVI compliance
Start: 2025-01-16T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-16T13:00:00+00:00
Location: Online – Zoom

16 January 2025 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Date: January 16, 2025
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Cost: BSA Member Rate: £90, BSA Additional Full Member Fee: £45, Non-member Rate: £180*
Audience: Admissions, Marketing, Deputy Head, Head of Boarding, Head, Bursar, Education Guardians, Agents
Platform: Zoom (online) – webinar

Course outline:

BSA’s Boarding box set series offers boarding staff and school leaders a broad overview of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series is 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.

A whistle-stop tour of immigration responsibilities for UK boarding schools who are sponsors. All members of SMT/SLT have a duty to understand their sponsor responsibilities and legal obligations. This webinar will provide an overview of key sponsor duties and compliance requirements. Delegates will gain a broad understanding of their responsibilities and will be signposted to key documents critical to recruiting international students.

Training topics will include:

An overview of the UK’s child student and student immigration routes
Key sponsor duties, including BCA and educational oversight
Specific reporting and child safeguarding duties
What to cover before assigning a CAS.

Learning outcomes:

Understanding your legal duties as a licence holder
Documentation and record keeping
Being compliant as a sponsor.

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Other titles in this series:

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:

Kate Hollyer, Executive Director, Legal & Public Affairs & Partner, BSA Legal Services Ltd

Kate is Legal and Public Affairs Director of BSA Group and Director of BSA Group Legal Services Ltd, BSA Group’s SRA-regulated law firm. As a qualified solicitor of England and Wales with more than 12 years’ experience advising clients on UK immigration and nationality law, Kate supports members with all UK immigration matters including UKVI sponsor licence compliance. Kate is a member of the Home Office Education Advisory Group and is the boarding sector representative for this group. Prior to joining BSA in 2022 Kate was Partner and Head of Department at a leading full-service UK law firm. Having resided in state, preparatory and senior school boarding houses since 2014 with her Housemaster husband, Kate has a unique perspective of boarding life.