Embedding your new boarding team

• Date: September 22, 2023
• Time: 10:30 – 12:30
• Cost: Full Member – £110, Affiliate Member – £165, Non-member – £220
• Audience: Heads of boarding, Houseparents
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

The course will focus on elements which make a successful and happy boarding staff team. It will consider current trends and issues in the management of boarding and there will also be an overview of self-assessment and boarding compliance.

Training topics will include:

• Effective management of a boarding team
• Current trends and concerns in boarding
• Self-assessment and compliance considerations.

Learning outcomes:

• The dynamics of team building and effective team working
• Getting the best out of your team members – understanding the collective capabilities of the team
• Increase knowledge of current issues facing boarders and their families
• Recommendations of how to ensure new guidance has been embedded into both policy and practice, and how to self-assess your boarding provision.

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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