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Managing suitability to board
🏷️ From £135-£270
🎧 Pastoral leads, all boarding staff
📍 Online
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, alongside 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 them consider if this would be helpful in their context, and how to create 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.
Speaker:
David Walker FTIOB, Executive Director, Boarding and Director, BSA/TIOB
David Walker has over 20 years’ experience in boarding education, having worked in a variety of schools across the UK and Africa. His career includes leadership roles in both senior and prep school settings, complemented by service as a prep school governor and trustee of a multi-academy trust. Before joining the BSA, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-educational independent school in the South-East, where he oversaw student welfare and pastoral care. His extensive background in safeguarding, boarding leadership, and governance gives him a broad perspective on the sector, enabling him to support schools in delivering outstanding pastoral provision.
