Midlands Forum

• Date: March 25, 2025
• Time: 12:00 – 13:00
• Cost: BSA Full Member and Affiliate Members – FOC
• Audience: Headteachers, Deputy and Assistant Headteachers, and Heads of Boarding
• Platform: Zoom (online) – forum

Forum outline:

BSA regional forums take place termly and allow members to meet up to discuss topics of interest, share ideas and ask questions. These events are usually held online, but some take place in-person. Forums are free of charge to all members.

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Speakers:

Samuel Oobeng-Asare, Assistant Headteacher (Boarding), Haberdasher’s Adams School

Sam Obeng-Asare has been teaching at Haberdashers’ Adams Grammar School, Newport Shropshire, since 2008. In his time at Adams, Sam has been Head of Economics and Business (2013 – present), Housemaster (2016-2023) and is currently Assistant Headteacher (Boarding). He is also a Boarding Schools Association (BSA) regional chair.  Sam holds a B.Ed. (Hons) from the University of Cape Coast, a Masters degree from Wolverhampton and PGCE from Homerton College, Cambridge.  Sam was a boarder as a child and his love for boarding shines through his passion to support parents and pupils navigate the boarding journey in a fun and fulfilling way.

Dale Wilkins, Executive Director, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance, BSA Group

Dale joined the BSA in 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998. In 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 developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our international members. He also liaises with ISI, Ofsted and DfE on matters relating to compliance and inspection standards, and compiles the BSA Self-Assessment toolkit, which he first produced in 2002, since which time he has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding.

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.