🏷️ From £135
🎧 Senior leaders, boarding staff, pastoral staff
📍 Online
Course outline:
Assessing and Supporting Fitness to Board: Policy and Practice Considerations
Determining whether a student is ‘fit to board’ involves careful consideration of the individual’s wellbeing, the needs of the wider boarding community, and the school’s legal responsibilities. As awareness of these complexities grows, many schools are finding value in developing a dedicated ‘fit to board’ policy.
This course supports schools in evaluating whether such a policy is appropriate for their context and guides staff through the key considerations involved in creating one.
Training topics will include:
Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session, participants will:
Speaker:
David Walker, Director, 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.