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BSA webinar – Boarding box set: promoting a culture of safeguarding

Wednesday 15 March, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm


  • Date: March 15, 2023
  • Time: 15:00 – 16:00
  • Cost: Full Member – £60, Additional Full Member – £20, Affiliate Member – £90, Additional Affiliate Member – £30, Non-member – £120
  • Audience: All safeguarding and pastoral staff in schools.
  • Platform: Zoom (online)

BSA’s Boarding box set series is designed for boarding staff and school leaders giving them a broad overview series of a range of key topics relating to boarding. This series would be ideal for staff moving into senior positions in boarding, preparing for Deputy Headship and consolidating their understanding on the wider sector ‘headlines’.

This set will be £500 for a member series place.

This webinar will explore how to understand and evaluate the safeguarding “culture” in schools. It will consider how to develop and promote appropriate practice and to evaluate the key indicators.

Training topics will include:

  • What is a safeguarding culture?
  • How to promote an effective and impactful culture
  • How to respond to negative cultures
  • Evaluating and reviewing progress against key indicators.

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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 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.

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, which was updated in 2022.


Other titles in this series:

1.Market overview: October 03 (recording available)
2.Inspection: Nov-01 (recording available)
3.Inclusion & diversity: Nov-23 (recording available)
4.Marketing and admissions Jan-25 (recording available)
5.Visas and immigration: Feb-27 (recording available)
6.Safeguarding culture: Mar-15
7.Boarding house management: Apr-26
8.Wellbeing and staff support: May-15
9.Getting it right for international students Jun-14
10.SEND Jul-05

Details

Date:
Wednesday 15 March
Time:
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Event Category:

Organiser

The Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA)
Phone
+44 (0) 20 7798 1580
View Organiser Website

Venue

Virtual – Zoom
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