Safeguarding against sexual violence and harassment in boarding schools

Name: Safeguarding against sexual violence and harassment in boarding schools
Start: 2025-05-12T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-05-12T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

12 May 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: May 12, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Boarding house practitioners
Platform: Zoom (online) – seminar

Course outline:

This seminar will take delegates through the latest statutory guidance now in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 (England) and other relevant guidance in other jurisdictions. sexual violence and harassment in schools, considering in particular the boarding environment. `Everyone’s Invited` and other disclosures highlighted the prevalence of sexual violence and harassment, both adult-on-child and child-on-child, in education settings. The subsequent Ofsted review demonstrated that the importance of work around this area cannot be denied.

The boarding environment can provide additional areas of vulnerability. This seminar will support delegates in considering best practice in this area and their work in their settings and communities.

Training topics will include:

Finding and understanding the latest guidance
Embedding a proactive culture in your setting
Hearing pupil and survivor voices and managing allegations.

Learning outcomes:

Delegates will leave with a clearer understanding of the application of sexual violence and harassment guidance
Delegates will understand the specific focus required in boarding
Increased confidence in managing allegations and supporting survivors and pupils.

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Speaker:
David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB
David is the Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB 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.