Taster Session: Pastoral Care – Developing a Culture of Wellbeing with Q&A

🏷️ £50, redeemable against the full Advanced Certificate course fee
🎧 All boarding practitioners
📍 Online

Taster Session Pastoral Care: Developing a Culture of Wellbeing

This session is designed to consider wellbeing in a boarding environment and how it should underpin everything that we do in our houses. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how wellbeing is promoted in their schools, share best practice in small break out rooms and review how wellbeing can and should be an integral part of our daily boarding practice.

During the session delegates will be given some background statistics to the mental health issues our boarders may experience and also some of the wellbeing models available to schools and boarding houses.

The session finishes with some extended questions for students to take back to school, including some questions about how staff manage their own wellbeing so that they are able to effectively support the students in their care.

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Course leader: 

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. In July 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 also 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.