BSA/AGBIS – Safeguarding highlights for boarding Governors

• Date: September 19, 2023
• Time: 17:00 – 18:00
• Cost: Full Member – £65, Additional Full Member – £30, Affiliate Member – £100, Additional Affiliate Member – £30, Non-member – £130
• Audience: All Governors, especially those with particular responsibility for Safeguarding and/or Boarding.
• Platform: Zoom (online) – Webinar

Course outline

This webinar will give Governors an overview regarding their safeguarding responsibilities and will focus on recent updates relevant to the sector. For those in England this will also cover any updates to KCSIE (Keeping Children Safe in Education).

Training topics will include:

• KCSIE
• The latest safeguarding headlines
• Safeguarding responsibilities of Governors
• Oversight and self-audit.

Learning outcomes:

• Increased awareness of current safeguarding issues
• Increased understanding of the responsibilities of all Governors for safeguarding
• Recommendations of best practice management relating to safeguarding.

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Cheryl Connelly, Director of Training & Membership (Deputy CEO), AGBIS

Cheryl Connelly was educated at Northumbria University where she completed a honours degree in Business Management. Having spent five years in the Civil Service, Cheryl moved to the Training and Enterprise Council where she advised public and private businesses on best practice and developed and delivered workshops to equip their own staff with the necessary skills to deliver continuous improvement. During this time Cheryl also completed her post graduate diploma in Personnel and Development. Cheryl then became an inspector with the Audit Commission where she led corporate compliance inspections at County and District councils, Police authorities and Fire authorities across the UK. After a decade at the Audit Commission, Cheryl moved into the Education sector as a Business Manager and Clerk to the Governors, spending six years in the maintained sector before spending the last three years in the independent sector. During this time, Cheryl also completed her MSc in Business Education Management. Cheryl has also served for over 20 years as a school governor, including as Chair of Governors and Chair of Finance and Resources.

Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA and BSA Group

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.