Fitness to board

• Date: June 26, 2025
• Time: 10:30 – 12:30
• Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £ 170, Non-member – £270
• Audience: Heads, Boarding staff, Heads of Year, Assistant Head Pastoral, Deputy Head Pastoral
• Platform: Zoom (online) Half-Day Seminar

Course outline:

There are many things a school may need to consider if a student is not ‘fit to board’. This may include the young person’s own safety and wellbeing, along with that of the others in a boarding house. Increasingly, schools have found it useful to write a ‘fit to board’ policy and this course is designed to help schools consider if this would be helpful in their context and how to put together such a policy.

Training topics will include:

• The reasons why people may not be ‘fit to board’. 
• Balancing needs in a boarding house. 
• Providing continuity of education and other legal considerations. 
• Working with parents. 
• Considerations when writing policy. 

Learning outcomes:

• Understand some reasons why a young person might not be fit to board. 
• Know the legal framework around education provision. 
• Be guided in producing a school policy on fitness to board. 

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David Walker FTIOB, Executive Director, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB

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.