Fitness to board

Name: Fitness to board
Start: 2024-09-12T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-12T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

September 12 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Date: September 12, 2024
Time: 14:00 – 16:00
Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
Audience: Heads, Boarding staff, Heads of Year, Assistant Head Pastoral, Deputy Head Pastoral
Platform: Zoom (online) Half-Day Seminar

Course outline:

There are many things a school may need to consider if a student is not ‘fit to board’. This may include the young person’s own safety and wellbeing, along with that of the others in a boarding house. Increasingly, schools have found it useful to write a ‘fit to board’ policy and this course is designed to help schools consider if this would be helpful in their context and how to put together such a policy.

Training topics will include:

The reasons why people may not be ‘fit to board’.
Balancing needs in a boarding house.
Providing continuity of education and other legal considerations.
Working with parents.
Considerations when writing policy.

Learning outcomes:

Understand some reasons why a young person might not be fit to board.
Know the legal framework around education provision.
Be guided in producing a school policy on fitness to board.

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David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

David is the BSA Director and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.