Safeguarding and inspection: what we’ve learned this year

Name: Safeguarding and inspection: what we’ve learned this year
Start: 2025-06-16T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-16T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

16 June 2025 @ 10:30 am - 3:30 pm

Date: June 16, 2025
Time: 10:30 – 15:30
Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £250, Non-member – £350
Audience: Heads, Deputy Heads and Heads of Boarding
Platform: Zoom (online) – Day Seminar

Course outline

The course will focus both on developments in inspection procedures and practice, but will also consider current trends and issues both in safeguarding practice and within the wider context of compliance.

Training topics will include:

How new guidance has embedded. For those inspected by ISI, there will be a particular focus on the recently introduced ISI Framework 23
Current trends and concerns in safeguarding
Compliance considerations

Learning outcomes:

Increased understanding of relevant legislative and guidance updates
Recommendations of how to ensure new guidance has been embedded into both policy and practice
Ensuring compliance matters are fully reflected in current procedures

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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.

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.