Safeguarding update

Name: Safeguarding update
Start: 2025-09-15T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-15T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

Monday 15 September, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
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Course outline:

This session will consider trends and developments in safeguarding. There will be a particular focus on Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance for England but the content will be relevant to all safeguarding practitioners.

Current safeguarding challenges—including in digital and online environments—and their potential implications for compliance and practice will be explored, along with recent high-profile safeguarding cases and lessons learned.

Learning outcomes:

Understand the latest KCSIE guidance
Gain practical strategies for implementing updates across school and boarding settings
Explore current issues and trends impacting safeguarding today.

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This event will be held jointly with:

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.