Fitness to Board

Name: Fitness to Board
Start: 2024-03-08T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-03-08T13:00:00+00:00

March 8 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

Date: March 8, 2024
Time: 11:00 – 13:00
Cost: BSA Full Member – £110, BSA Affiliate Member – £165, Non-member – £220
Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff and teaching staff, Medical staff, DSL, School governors
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:

You will:

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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Speaker:

David Walker, Director, BSA

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.