BSA/GSA virtual training – Safeguarding update

• Date: September 26, 2022
• Time: 16:00 – 17:00
• Cost: BSA Full / GSA Member – £50 / Additional BSA Full / GSA Member – £10,  BSA Affiliate Member £75 / Additional BSA Affiliate Member £15, Non-member – £100
• Audience: All those involved in safeguarding
• Platform: Zoom (online)

Course outline

The session will discuss current trends and developments in safeguarding. There will be a particular focus on the changes in the updated Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance for England (September 2022) but the content will be relevant to all safeguarding practitioners

Training topics will include:

• The new Keeping Children Safe in Education guidance for England
• Current safeguarding issues and trends, including online environments
• Compliance implications.

Learning outcomes:

• Understanding the changes
• Guidance on implementation in various boarding and girls’ school settings
• Considering issues relating to current safeguarding developments

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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.