BSA webinar – Boarding box set: visas and immigration

• Date: February 28, 2022
• Time: 12:00 – 13:00
• Cost: Full Member – £60 / Additional Full Member – £15, Affiliate Member £90 / Additional Affiliate Member – £20, Non-member – £120
  This set will be £500 for a member series place.
• Audience: All those currently holding or aspiring to boarding leadership positions.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

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’.

A whistle-stop tour of immigration responsibilities for UK boarding schools who are sponsors. All members of SMT/SLT have a duty of 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 license holder
• Documentation and record keeping
• Being compliant as a sponsor.

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Trainer: Aileen Kane, COO, BSA Group and Director, Sacpa

Aileen is COO of BSA Group, and the Director of Sacpa (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Aileen leads operations at BSA providing guidance and training to member schools and works closely with government departments including DfE, Home Office, DIT, MOD, FCO, local authorities and other agencies to support member schools. She was a board member of the Boarding Schools Partnership group, which aims to place vulnerable children into boarding schools, and heads up BSA’s work to find places for refugee children escaping from conflict countries. A business graduate with over 17 years of marketing and communications experience, Aileen has worked as a head of international marketing in the beauty industry before entering the education sector. She has managed the MAD (Marketing, Admissions, Development) departments at two independent UK schools within SMT/SLT to achieve strategic targets including growth and market awareness. Aileen is also a trustee for a children’s charity.

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