Pre-inspection self-assessment audit tips and recommendations

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧 All boarding practitioners
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

Course Outline:

This training session provides a comprehensive overview of auditing boarding provision, whether for internal quality assurance or to prepare for external verification or inspection.

Training Topics:

• Core principles and best practices in auditing boarding provision
• Gathering and incorporating the perspectives of young people
• Establishing and maintaining a structured audit and review cycle

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the key principles involved in auditing boarding provision
• Assess and enhance current methods for capturing and responding to pupil feedback
• Design and implement a robust and sustainable boarding audit procedure

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Speaker: 

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

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards, having previously been a course tutor since 1998.  Dale leads on all safeguarding, inspection and compliance matters for BSA Group, including liaising with ISI, Ofsted and DfE in England, and leading on the group’s work in Scotland and Wales. He trains and delivers consultancy extensively for BSA and SACPA and is Vice Chair of the Group’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Advisory Board (SAFCAB).

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, is a safeguarding trainer for the Methodist Church, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra and chair of a small performing arts charity. He also holds volunteer roles in sport and in the Scout Association.