BSA webinar – Pre-inspection self-assessment audit tips and recommendations

• Date: September 06, 2022
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00
• Cost: Full Member – £60 / Additional Full Member – £20, Affiliate Member £90 / Additional Affiliate Member – £30, Non-member – £120
• Audience: All boarding practitioners
• Platform: Zoom (online)

The session will give an overview of how to audit boarding provision, whether for internal processes or for an external verification or inspection.

Training topics will include:

• Key principles for auditing boarding provision
• Understanding and considering the views of the young people
• Developing a regular audit and review procedure

Learning outcomes:

• Increase knowledge of the key principles of auditing boarding provision
• Evaluate and improve provisions for considering pupil views
• Develop an enhanced procedure of boarding audits.

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Speaker: Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA Group

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s accredited training programme. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter, the Annual Safeguarding conference, and the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members.

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 and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.