Preparing for inspection (England) – ISI & Ofsted

Name: Preparing for inspection (England) – ISI & Ofsted
Start: 2024-09-27T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-09-27T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

September 27 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: September 27, 2024
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Head/Principal, Deputy Head/Vice-Principal, Governors, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff, DSL
Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline:

Schools have become familiar with the requirements of the regular inspection process. This virtual day seminar is aimed both at those who are familiar with the process as well as those completely new to it. The day focuses both on the process itself and preparation for forthcoming inspection visits, as well as providing relevant updates on new legislation that could impact an inspection result.

Throughout the session, information and actions will refer to the new National Minimum Standards 2022, as well as referencing appropriate updates to other guidance such as Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024. The session will also consider how well schools have embedded their responses to Everyone’s Invited and the Ofsted Review, which remain a key focus for inspectors. Emerging issues from the new ISI Framework will also be explored.

This training is relevant and valuable regardless of where schools are in the inspection cycle.

Training topics will include:

Updates to current guidance – including KCSIE 2024 and the National Minimum Standards
Preparing for inspection – gathering evidence relating to the inspection framework
Going beyond the minimum standard – securing the best outcomes for pupils, actions that go beyond the minimum standards
Embedding a regular audit procedure – looking at the process of review and reflection and establishing a long-term process beyond the inspection cycle.

Learning outcomes:

Recommendations of how to prepare for an inspection
Increased understanding of relevant legislative and guidance updates
Recommendations for conducting a regular audit procedure.

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Speaker:

Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance

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.

Sue Duff

Following a successful career in commerce, culminating in a senior position in a world leading market research organisation, Sue made the transition to teaching in the independent sector. Having worked in prep, GSA and HMC environments, she has a breadth of experience across the independent schools sector. Sue has always focussed on boarding in her teaching career having set up two houses from scratch as well as running boarding teams. Before the leap to self employment, she was on the Senior Leadership Team at one of the country’s premier HMC boarding schools, having led the integration of the school into a fully co-educational environment and held various management positions. Sue now works with schools, both in the UK and worldwide, as an inspector and consultant predominantly looking at boarding, pastoral and academic systems, helping to improve the outcomes that pupils experience. She also works on whole school compliance projects. Sue has worked with the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) since 2011 and is a Lead/Reporting Inspector, also inspecting for AEGIS and COBIS. She has been working with the BSA undertaking consultancy and training for almost 20 years. Sue is vice-chair of Governors at a large HMC co-ed school in Worcestershire.