Auditing your own boarding house / Understanding boarding compliance and inspection

• Date: September 10, 2024
• Time: 10:30 – 15:30
• Cost: BSA Full Member – £175, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 250, Non-member – £350
• Audience: Boarding house practitioners
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline:

This seminar will help all practitioners within boarding understanding boarding compliance and inspection requirements with a view to equipping your team with the ability to self-audit and work to exceed minimum standards and requirements in the care of boarders. The training will provide a more in-depth approach for boarding staff who are responsible for auditing their own boarding provision. It is particularly suitable for those who have just taken on increased responsibility in their setting but is equally relevant to practitioners looking to remain current in their knowledge and understanding. 

Training topics will include:

• The different standards and inspectorates across boarding 
• Assessing your boarding provision 
• Setting suitable benchmarks 
• Implementing change 
• What constitutes excellent practice. 

Learning outcomes:

• Know the key compliance requirements in your boarding house(s) 
• Consider wider aspects of best practice within boarding 
• Know where to go to get information and feedback about your boarding provision 
• Be able to self-audit your boarding provision. 

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Speakers:

Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA and BSA Group

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.

David Walker, Director, BSA

David is the BSA Director 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.