Safeguarding against sexual violence and harassment in boarding schools
🏷️ From £175
🎧 Boarding house practitioners
📍 Online
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.
Speaker:
David Walker, Executive Director, Boarding & Education 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.
Dr Mariya Ali, Director of SACPA
Mariya Ali is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 30 years of experience across advisory, academic, legal, and leadership roles. She previously served as Deputy Minister in the Maldives, leading national reforms in child protection, and has worked with UNICEF, Save the Children, and Lumos on developing protection systems globally. With qualifications in Human Rights, Social Work, and Traumatic Stress, she has published widely on child rights, online safety, and trauma-informed safeguarding. Known for her strategic vision and practical expertise, Mariya brings both global insight and local implementation experience, making her a strong asset to SACPA.
