Safeguarding essentials

🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45 or £650 for full webinar series
🎧 Safeguarding leads, deputy heads, pastoral leads, boarding staff
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up

Course outline:

This session is part of the BSA Boarding Box Set, a comprehensive six-part series covering essential boarding topics. Ideal for those stepping into senior boarding roles or wanting to deepen their understanding of the sector.

The series is £650, with recordings available for any sessions you are not able to attend live. Sessions can also be booked individually if preferred.

This session in the series will focus on understanding and evaluating safeguarding culture within schools. It will explore how to develop positive safeguarding practices, identify key indicators of success, and address challenges when culture needs improvement.

Learning outcomes:

• Understand the critical role of safeguarding culture in promoting pupil welfare
• Learn how to build, maintain, and model effective safeguarding behaviours
• Gain confidence in recognising signs of an unhealthy culture and knowing how to respond
• Be equipped to assess safeguarding culture against key benchmarks and indicators.”

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Speaker:

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

Dale joined the BSA in 2017 to lead safeguarding, inspection, and compliance across the UK, building on his experience as a course tutor since 1998. He works closely with ISI, Ofsted, and DfE, and oversees the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA, Dale is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Previously, he was a boarding practitioner for 31 years, including Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. He also trains for the Methodist Church, is a trustee of the National Youth String Orchestra, chairs a performing arts charity, and volunteers in sport and Scouting.

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