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Managing suitability to board
- Date: June 09, 2025
- Time: 10:30 – 12:30
- Cost: BSA Full Member – £135, BSA Affiliate Member – £170, Non-member – £270
- Audience: Head, Deputy Head, Inclusion Lead, Head of Boarding, Boarding staff and teaching staff, Medical staff, DSL, School governors, guardians
- Platform: Zoom (online) – 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, alongside 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 them consider if this would be helpful in their context, and how to create 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.
Speakers:
David Walker, 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.
