BSA & AGBIS webinar – Foundations for boarding school Governors

• Date: November 24, 2022
• Time: 17:00 – 18:00
• Cost: BSA Full / AGBIS Member: £50, Additional BSA Full / AGBIS Member: £10, BSA Affiliate Member: £75, Additional BSA Affiliate Member: £15, Non-member: £100
• Audience:
• Platform: Zoom (online)

This webinar will talk delegates through how individual Governors and Governing bodies can provide schools with a robust degree of challenge and offer best practice suggestions for how to develop suitable audit models with school leadership teams.  Delegates will be able to put questions to the speakers and Chair to raise specific issues or challenges they are facing.

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Speaker: Dale Wilkins, Senior Director,  BSA and BSA Group
Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s accredited training programme. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter, the annual Safeguarding Conference, and the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members.

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 and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002.

Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.

Cheryl Connelly, Director of Training, AGBIS

Cheryl Connelly was education at Northumbria University where she completed an honours degree in Business Management. Having spent five years in the Civil Service, Cheryl moved to the Training and Enterprise Council where she advised public and private businesses on best practice and developed and delivered workshops to equip their own staff with the necessary skills to deliver continuous improvement. During this time, Cheryl also completed her post graduate diploma in Personnel and Development.

Cheryl then became an inspector with the Audit Commission where she led corporate compliance inspections and County and District councils, Police authorities and Fire authorities across the UK. After a decade at the Audit Commission, Cheryl moved into the educations sector as a Business Manager and Clerk to Governors, spending six years in the maintained sector before spending the last three years in the independent sector. During this time, Cheryl also completed her MSc in Business Education Management. Cheryl has also served for 17 years as a school governor, including as Chair of Governors and Chair of Finance and Resources.