BSA Certified Guardians – “Toolbox Talk”

• Date: October 17, 2022
• Time: 14:00 – 15:00
• Cost: BSA Certified Guardian Service – Free of Charge
• Audience: The event is only open to BSA Certified Guardians
• Platform: Zoom (online)

This event is for BSA Certified Guardians only

Course outline

In this Autumn Toolbox Talk we will be joined by Robin Fletcher, CEO BSA Group and Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, BSA Group. Robin will take us through a brief update of the BSA Group and boarding sector before Dale highlights recent safeguarding changes. There will then be an opportunity to ask questions and to meet with other BSA Certified Guardians in Zoom breakout rooms.

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Ammy Davies-Potter, Director of Guardianship and Inclusion, BSA Group

Ammy is Director of Guardianship and Inclusion and a member of the BSA Foundation Trust. She joined the Group in 2020 following a career in education and was latterly a Deputy Head of an all-girls boarding school. Ammy is a member of the ISC inclusion group and is currently studying for a Masters in Inclusive Education.

Robin Fletcher, Chief Executive, BSA and BSA Group

Robin Fletcher, MBA, MPhil is CEO of BSA Group, comprising the BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association), SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students). Robin was a journalist, editor and communications director before joining BSA in 2014.

As BSA CEO, Robin is a member of the Department for Education’s Systems Partnership Oversight Board. Outside BSA, he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Governor of Rugby School, President of the Rugbeian Society and a non-executive director of the national trade body Make UK.

Speaker: Dale Wilkins, Senior Director, 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.