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SUMMARY:Educational agents and international student recruitment: a UKVI compliance perspective
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Admissions\, deputies\, bursars\, senior leaders\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nOverview  \nThe use of educational agents is well established within the international schools sector and continues to play an important role in supporting student recruitment. However\, UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has increased its focus on the oversight of agent relationships and remains clear that Student sponsor licence holders retain full responsibility for compliance with their sponsor duties\, regardless of any delegated recruitment activity.  \nAs scrutiny of international recruitment practices continues to evolve\, schools must be able to demonstrate effective governance\, due diligence\, and ongoing monitoring of agent relationships. This webinar will explore UKVI’s current expectations\, recent developments affecting Student sponsors\, and the practical steps schools can take to mitigate compliance risks while maintaining productive recruitment partnerships.  \nDrawing on real-life examples and emerging areas of concern\, the session will provide practical guidance on identifying potential red flags\, evidencing appropriate oversight\, and preparing for UKVI compliance activity.  \nLearning outcomes  \nBy the end of this webinar\, delegates will be able to:  \n\nUnderstand UKVI’s expectations regarding the use and oversight of educational agents\nIdentify key compliance risks associated with agent relationships\nImplement effective due diligence\, monitoring\, and record-keeping practices  \nDemonstrate appropriate oversight of agent activities to meet sponsor duties  \nPrepare for UKVI scrutiny of agent relationships during compliance activity.  \n\nTopics covered  \n\nSponsor responsibility and accountability  \nUKVI’s current position and areas of focus  \nThe Agent Quality Framework (AQF)  \nAgent due diligence and monitoring  \nGovernance\, oversight\, and record-keeping  \nCommon compliance concerns and red flags  \nPreparing for UKVI compliance visits. \n\nWho should attend?  \n\nAdmissions and international recruitment staff \nCompliance and visa sponsorship leads \nHeads\, deputy heads\, and senior leaders \nBursars and business managers \nExisting Student sponsor licence key personnel \nGovernors with responsibility for international strategy\, risk\, or compliance.\n\nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n\nSpeaker: \n \nKate Hollyer\, Director of BSA Legal\nKate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group\, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal\, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years. \nHer work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level\, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s\, immigration compliance is safeguarding\, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career. \nKate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group\, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/educational-agents-and-international-student-recruitment-a-ukvi-compliance-perspective/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261105T163000
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SUMMARY:Annual safeguarding conference
DESCRIPTION:🏷️From £250 (Non member Delegate Fee includes 1 year SACPA membership)\n🎧 All those involved in safeguarding\n📍 Broadway House\, Tothill Street\, London SW1H 9NQ\n🏆 Winners announced for the Annual Safeguarding Awards ENTRIES NOW CLOSED \n\nWith significant changes to safeguarding guidance now in effect\, this conference provides an essential update for safeguarding professionals across health\, social care\, sports\, and the voluntary sector. Focusing on Working Together 2026\, Keeping Children Safe in Education 2026 and contemporary safeguarding practice\, delegates will gain practical insights into creating resilient organisations\, strengthening safeguarding culture and improving outcomes for children and young people. \nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n\n09:30 – 10:00  Registration & refreshments \n\n10:00 – 10:05  Welcome: The safeguarding journey from regulation to reflection \nAn introduction to the conference theme\, exploring how regulation\, relationships\, reasoning and reflection contribute to effective safeguarding and resilient organisations. \n\nSpeaker: Mariya Ali\, Director of SACPA\n\n\n10:05 – 10:35 – Regulate before we educate \nAn immersive movement-based opening experience demonstrating how regulation through movement and sensory experiences supports learning\, well-being and effective safeguarding practice. This session will also focus building on our cultural humility. \n\nSpeaker: Julene Robinson\, Movement Specialist\n\n\n10:35 – 10:45  Break \n\n10:45 – 11:30  Beyond compliance: reflective practice as a safeguarding intervention \nDiscover how reflective practice strengthens professional judgement\, support staff wellbeing and helps build a positive safeguarding culture. \n\nSpeaker: Dr Sylvia B Smith (FHEA\, SWE Registered\, MBASW)\n\n\n11:30 – 12:00  Safer Spaces for Children: A Culture of Listening and Speaking Up \nLearn how involving children in recruitment and organisational decision making can strengthen safeguarding culture and accountability. \n\nSpeakers: Tricia Young\, BBC\, Children in Need\nCorinne Davey\n\n\n12:00 – 12:15  How critical are young people’s voice in the discussion of the manosphere?  \n\nSpeaker: Jemima Corcoran\n\n\n12:15 – 12:45  Panel Discussion – Trauma-informed workplaces \nExplore how psychologically safe workplaces\, informed by care experience\, can improve wellbeing\, retention and safeguarding practice. \n\nSpeakers: Mariya Ali\, Louis Donald\,\nChair: Dale Wilkins\n\n\n12:45 – 13:30 Lunch \n\n13:30 – 14:15  Teenage relationship abuse: recognising coercion\, control and harm \nGain practical insights into recognising and responding to abuse in adolescent relationships\, including coercive control and technology- facilitated harm. \n\nSpeaker: Maddi Brunker\, Head of Adult Services at Tender Education and Arts\n\n\n14:15 – 15:00  Safeguarding in 2026: Working Together\, KCSIE and what inspectors expect \nA practical update on the latest safeguarding\, legislation and inspection expectations for education and safeguarding professionals. \n\nSpeaker: Kevin Hartley\, Senior Consultant for the NSPCC\n\n\n15:00 – 15:15 Refreshments \n\n15:15 – 15:45  Artificial intelligence\, sport and safeguarding \nExplore the safeguarding implications of AI\, deepfakes\, digital identity and emerging online risks for children and young people. \n\nSpeaker: Rosalind Harrison\, Social Media and Content Marketer\n\n\n15:45 – 16:30  Closing keynote: Why knowing and challenging ourselves influences ourapproach to Safeguarding. \nBringing together the day’s key themes\, this keynote explores how organisations can embed resilient\, relationship-based safeguarding cultures. \n\nSpeaker: Dr Jessica Taylor\, CEO – VictimFocus\, PhD\, AFBPsS\, CPsychol\, FRSA\, PGDip\n\n\n16:30 – 16:45  Annual safeguarding awards and close \nThe SACPA Awards are held annually each autumn to celebrate and recognise outstanding contributions to safeguarding and child protection. \n\nSpeakers: \n \nDr Sylvia B Smith (FHEA\, SWE Registered\, MBASW) \nSylvia is Founder and Director of Incline Training Consultants Ltd\, specialising in social work education\, leadership development\, and anti-racist practice. Her doctoral research examined how psychoanalytical approaches can strengthen social work leadership. She offers reflective practice\, coaching\, and supervision to individuals\, groups\, and teams across the sector\, and is co-convenor of The Reflective Practice Research Network. Sylvia’s work includes commissioned evaluation of anti-racist practice strategy and supporting doctoral students in their research development. She hosts the Social Workers Matter podcast\, serves as Vice Chair of a Fostering and Adoption Panel and is currently one of the guest editors for a special issue of the British Journal of Social Work due for publication in the autumn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jessica Taylor\, CEO – VictimFocus\, PhD\, AFBPsS\, CPsychol\, FRSA\, PGDip \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Jessica Taylor is a Chartered Psychologist\, multi-Sunday Times bestselling author\, and internationally recognised expert in victimology\, trauma\, and forensic psychology. As CEO of VictimFocus\, she leads the organisation’s strategic direction\, national influence\, and international partnerships. Her work spans the development of evidence-based psychological theory\, high-impact resources\, service frameworks\, and consultancy models used across health\, justice\, education\, and social care.\nWith a wealth of frontline experience working directly with victims and survivors\, Jessica brings a grounded\, practice-informed perspective to her research and leadership. A leading voice in the development of trauma-informed\, anti-oppressive frameworks for systems and services\, she has advised on national policing strategies\, government policy\, and institutional reform in the UK and internationally. Her expertise helps organisations stay ahead of the curve\, align with national guidance and inspection standards\, and implement meaningful\, systemic change. Through her research\, writing\, and public engagement\, she has played a key role in transforming understanding of victim blaming\, trauma-informed practice\, and institutional responses to abuse. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricia (Tricia) Young\, Interim Director\, Impact and Influence \n \nTricia brings a 20 year track record as committed advocate for children\, youth and social justice. She believes that children and young people are experts on their own lives and have a critical role to play in building more equitable and sustainable communities and societies. She ran specialist child participation agency Child to Child for 8 years; she was also responsible for child and youth participation whilst Director of Programmes at Lumos Foundation\, where she led a global portfolio focused on transforming child protection and welfare systems to prevent family separation and spearheaded its humanitarian response in Ukraine and Moldova. \nTricia is currently Director of Impact and Influence at BBC Children in Need\, where she is responsible for overseeing three flagship equity initiatives: Communities for Children\, an innovative place-based programme designed to tackle childhood poverty; Lead the Change\, a Youth Social Action programme designed to respond to growing polarisation\, Islamaphobia and racism; and We Move Forward\, BBC Children in Need’s 10 year commitment to Black children and young people. As a mixed-race woman\, Tricia’s is passionate about tackling racism and inequity and promoting social justice. \n\nCorinne Davey\, BA (Hons)\, MSc (Hons)\, CIPD \nCorinne Davey began work in international development as Plan International’s Asia Regional Human Resources Advisor in 2000. From 2004 to 2009 Corinne was EveryChild’s Learning and Resources Director\, a brief that included planning\, monitoring and evaluation\, child participation and child safeguarding and protection. Since 2010 Corinne has worked as a consultant with GCPS Consulting. From 2011 to 2015 Corinne was Director of Keeping Children Safe where she led on the establishment of the organisation as an independent charitable company and the expansion of the organisation to deliver consultancy services\, formal membership and advocate for the adoption of the international standards by key organisations within the aid and development sector. \nCorinne’s work with GCPS Consulting has been primarily supporting organisations in the aid and development sector to establish or strengthen safeguarding systems and processes. Corinne was one of the team who worked with Social Development Direct to set up the Safeguarding Resource Support Hub for organisations working internationally. Corinne’s focus since 2018 has been on organisational cultures for safeguarding and how to capacity build both the organisation and its people to safeguard effectively both staff and adults and children with whom the organisation works. \n\nKevin Hartley\, Senior Consultant for the NSPCC \n \nKevin Hartley is a Senior Consultant for the NSPCC. Kevin has worked in secondary education for almost 30 years\, initially as an English teacher\, but later as a Pastoral Lead and then as a member of senior leadership. \nFor most of his career he has been involved in safeguarding and spent 12 years as a DSL in a busy\, diverse 11-18 Academy. He has contributed to the development of policies and procedures at both school and Trust level. \nKevin now works in the NSPCC consultancy service which supports schools and other organisations in developing their safeguarding practices \n\nJulene Robinson\, Movement Specialist \nJulene is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist\, scientist\, and wellbeing practitioner. A Master’s graduate of Rose Bruford College who also holds a BSc in Environmental Chemistry she combines artistic practice with scientific inquiry to explore leadership\, resilience\, and human flourishing. A trained yoga and meditation instructor\, Julene integrates a mind-body-spirit approach into her creative practice\, championing wellbeing\, healing\, and sustainable creativity. Recognised by Arts Council England as a global leader in theatre and performance\, Julene’s work centres on the power of storytelling to inspire personal and social transformation. Through performance\, facilitation\, and research\, she empowers artists\, leaders\, and communities to cultivate resilience\, lead with authenticity\, and build cultures of care. \n\n  \nRosalind Harrison\, Social Media and Content Marketer \nRos Harrison is a social media and video content specialist who supports schools and child-focused organisations in using online communications safely. Ros has 20 years of experience working with children and young people in both the public and third sectors\, including facilitating safeguarding and CEOP training for local authority youth workers and developing domestic abuse awareness programmes for staff and pupils in primary settings. With 15 years of experience as a digital marketer\, specialising in GDPR and compliance\, across professional services and local authorities\, she now helps schools develop effective management systems and robust safeguarding practices when representing themselves on social media through her business\, Harrison Media Solutions. \n\nJemima Corcoran\, Student\, UCL \nJemima Corcoran is a final-year undergraduate at UCL\, studying English Literature and Language. She has spent the last year as Editor at EdFringe Review and has recently entered the role Editor-in-Chief at UCL’s media outlet\, Pi Online for 2026-7\, having previously worked as their Lifestyle & Culture section editor. Originally from Brighton\, she has a strong interest in animal welfare\, environmental issues\, and women’s rights. A regular contributor to Pi Online\, her work ranges from theatre reviews and investigative lifestyle features to political commentary\, earning her Top Ten shortlist recognition at the SPA National Awards for both Best Lifestyle Piece and Best Culture Writer. Jemima has also worked as an on-screen presenter for PiTV at UCL\, where she conducted interviews on student culture\, politics\, and current issues. She has had her articles shared by Zack Polanski\, Deborah Frances White\, and Tom Read Wilson. She aims to pursue a career in journalism and media after graduating. \n\nMaddi Brunker\, Head of Adult Services at Tender Education and Arts\, \nMaddi brings over 13 years of experience working within the Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) sector. Her career spans frontline service delivery\, management of an Independent Domestic Violence Advocate (IDVA) service\, and leadership in preventative education and intervention programmes. Maddi has delivered specialist training on domestic abuse and sexual violence for adult safeguarding boards\, local authorities\, universities\, and educational settings. She has also contributed to research led by Durham University in partnership with Galop\, and to parliamentary reports produced by SafeLives\, helping to inform policy and practice across the sector. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLouis Donald FRSA\, Founder & Principal Safeguarding Partner of EduShield and a former Executive Education (Safeguarding) Director at a nationwide multi-academy trust. \nLouis is recognised nationally for expertise in safeguarding\, inspection readiness\, crisis management\, and school improvement across multi-academy trusts. Louis has advised the Department for Education on safeguarding policy\, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic\, and is the first education professional to qualify as a Gold Multi-Agency Strategic Commander. He chairs the Queen Street Group Safeguarding Directors Forum\, sits on the NASSA board\, and serves on the British Army’s Independent Advisory Group. Trusted for his calm\, strategic leadership\, Louis supports leaders navigating complex Safeguarding challenges. \n\nDr Mariya Ali\, Director\, SACPA \nMariya is an internationally recognised safeguarding and child protection expert with over 20 years’ multidisciplinary experience. She has held senior advisory\, academic\, legal\, and leadership roles\, including serving as Maldives Minister of Gender\, Family\, and Human Rights\, leading reforms in child protection law and policy. Internationally\, she has advised UNICEF\, UNDP\, and ECPAT on child sexual abuse\, exploitation\, and protection systems. Holding qualifications in law and child psychology\, she has published widely on child rights\, online safety\, and trauma-informed practice. Mariya’s strategic vision\, policy expertise\, and frontline insight equip her to bring both global perspective and local understanding to SACPA’s mission. \n\nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. 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\, the annual Safeguarding Conference\, the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members. \nFor 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 and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/annual-safeguarding-conference-2/
LOCATION:Broadway House\, Tothill St\, London SW1H 9NQ
CATEGORIES:Conference,In-person
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261113T153000
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CREATED:20260423T112158Z
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SUMMARY:What do you meme? Keeping up with children and young people online
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £175\n🎧 Safeguarding leads\, pastoral leads\, deputy heads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nIn today’s digital age\, boarding staff and education professionals need to stay connected with students’ online lives. Unsure how to keep up with fast-changing internet trends and digital culture? This webinar is here to help! \nJoin us for an up-to-the-minute session where you’ll explore how children and young people use digital spaces daily\, as well as the emerging language\, behaviours and social expecations they are navigating. You’ll gain practical strategies to connect authentically with students by understanding their online world\, boosting your confidence to support their digital wellbeing and safety. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nInsightful understanding of children and young people’s online worlds\nDeeper awareness of how digital trends impact their lives\nGreater confidence engaging with young people around digital wellbeing and safety.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \nKarl Hopwood\, Online safety expert \nKarl is an independent online safety expert. He is a member of UKCIS (UK Council for Internet Safety) and sits on the UKCIS evidence group\, education working group and the early warning group as well as on the advisory board for the UK Safer Internet Centre. He also sits on the Roblox trust and safety board where he represents the Insafe network. He was part of an expert steering group with TikTok looking at harmful and dangerous online challenges and regularly contributes to content for Internet Matters\, recently delivering their online safety training for those working with children in care commissioned by Ofcom. \nKarl has worked for a number of key players in the UK and abroad including CEOP (Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre)\, BECTA (British Educational and Communications Technology Agency)\, the European Commission\, the UN and several Local Authorities within the UK and in Europe. \nAs an ex primary headteacher\, he continues to work closely in schools across Europe with children\, young people\, parents\, teachers and governors to develop safer online behaviours and the promotion of digital literacy. Karl has been employed for the last 19 years as an in-house consultant for INSAFE which is the coordinating node of the EU Better Internet for Kids programme where he is responsible for the coordination of safer internet helplines and awareness centres across Europe. Karl was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Marie Collins Foundation for 7 years\, a charity which supports young people who have been sexually abused and exploited online and is now Chair of the board of trustees of Childnet international and Chair of the executive committee of SACPA (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association). Karl has also worked with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and chaired the working group to re-write their Child Online Protection Guidance. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/what-do-you-meme-keeping-up-with-children-and-young-people-online-3/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261120T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261120T103000
DTSTAMP:20260804T093351Z
CREATED:20260330T125804Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T093351Z
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SUMMARY:Prevent strategy and radicalisation
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Safeguarding leads\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nThis webinar provides an awareness overview of the Prevent Duty. Delegates will review the legal context\, signs and indicators\, response and referral to the challenge of radicalisation.  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nWhat is radicalisation and the Prevent duty \nRecognising individuals who are vulnerable to radicalisation \nManaging disclosure and relevant referral to Channel for Prevent.  \n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nGet a clearer understanding of their role & responsibilities towards your Prevent duty \nRecognise and identify the vulnerabilities to being drawn into radicalisation and extremism \nLearn what to do if there are concerns that an individual is at risk of radicalisation \nBe able to handle a disclosure effectively and raise these concerns appropriately \nUnderstand the referral process for Prevent and the Channel Panel process\n\nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n  \n  \n  \n\nSpeaker: \nTom Robinson\, safeguarding expert \nThomas Robinson is an experienced safeguarding expert\, with a specialism in radicalisation. He holds extensive experience tackling a wide range of complex radicalisation cases in various roles\, including as a Social Worker within Children’s Services\, as Channel Coordinator within Prevent and as the Prevent Practitioner/Deputy Named Safeguarding Professional within an NHS mental health Trust. Furthermore\, Thomas is a PhD candidate in Social Work and Social Care investigating the radicalisation of young men and the role of masculinity in violent extremism. \nThomas is a qualified Social Worker with a background in Children’s services and holds years of experience in multi-agency safeguarding work. His work spans across safeguarding children and adults from a range of harms\, including domestic abuse\, sexual exploitation\, criminal exploitation\, county lines\, modern slavery and radicalisation. Thomas is passionate about supporting professionals to respond to safeguarding concerns\, and is using his PhD research to build a practical tool to support social workers to assess and safeguard males whom are vulnerable to radicalisation. \nIn his current role as Prevent Practitioner/Deputy Named Safeguarding Professional within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT)\, Thomas provides regular trainings to staff and teams across the Trust\, including Prevent Awareness\, Workshop to Raise Awareness on Prevent (WRAP)\, and Safeguarding Adults. Thomas also offers regular expert consultations to support staff to respond to complex radicalisation concerns across the Trust\, and is the SPFT representative in the Prevent’s Channel Panels across Sussex that provide a multi-agency approach to safeguarding those assessed as vulnerable to radicalisation. Moreover\, Thomas contributes to the development and updating of Policy within SPFT to structurally respond to emerging safeguarding concerns regarding radicalisation. \nOver the years\, Thomas has gathered substantial knowledge and practical expertise on the multi-faceted dynamics of safeguarding and radicalisation. His unique position of both working in and researching on this issue provides unique insights into this complex area of safeguarding. Thomas is available to deliver Prevent training to a range of organisations\, which will cover the key features of Prevent Awareness and Prevent WRAP\, including CONTEST\, the statutory duty under Counter Terrorism Security Act 2015 known as the ‘Prevent Duty’\, Vulnerabilities to Radicalisation\, Extremist Ideology and groups\, Current Threat Level\, and the Channel Panel process. Thomas will provide an opportunity to have a nuanced and critical discussion about this important and complex area of safeguarding .
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/prevent-strategy-and-radicalisation/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261120T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261120T153000
DTSTAMP:20260813T111224Z
CREATED:20260409T155705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260813T111224Z
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SUMMARY:Boarding essentials
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £175\n🎧 Anyone new to boarding\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse Outline: \nThe level of professionalism expected in boarding supervision has significantly increased in recent years\, driven by stronger regulatory frameworks and rising parental expectations. This seminar is designed to support staff who are new to boarding by complementing their school-based induction and providing essential context around the key responsibilities and expectations of the role. \nBy equipping new boarding staff with a solid understanding of the principles\, legal context\, and practicalities of boarding care\, schools can quickly establish confident\, capable teams who enjoy their duties and provide high-quality support to the young people in their care. \nThe session will explore the Duty of Care framework\, safeguarding\, roles and boundaries\, and how to meet the everyday needs of boarders. Delegates are encouraged to familiarise themselves in advance with their school’s boarding handbook and relevant boarding-related materials from their school’s website. \nTraining Topics: \n\nSafeguarding and the National Minimum Standards for Boarding:\nAn overview of legal and inspection requirements\, with a focus on current safeguarding expectations in boarding practice.\nMeeting the Needs of Boarders:\nPractical case studies to explore common scenarios in boarding life and how to manage them effectively and empathetically.\nUnderstanding Your Role in Boarding:\nDiscussion around the expectations of the school\, the boarding house\, parents—and your own expectations as a member of the pastoral team.\nWorking Safely and Looking After Yourself:\nTips and guidance on maintaining your wellbeing\, working safely\, and finding fulfilment in your boarding role.\n\nLearning Outcomes: \nBy the end of the session\, participants will be able to: \n\nUnderstand the key principles and expectations of working in a boarding environment\nFeel more confident in supporting the wellbeing and development of boarders\nRecognise the legal context\, including safeguarding responsibilities and the National Minimum Standards for Boarding\nReflect on their role within the wider pastoral team and identify strategies for maintaining personal wellbeing and resilience\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeakers: \n\n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/boarding-essentials-2/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261130T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261130T120000
DTSTAMP:20260811T143133Z
CREATED:20260409T163018Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260811T143133Z
UID:74224-1796036400-1796040000@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Boarding Box Set - safeguarding essentials
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Safeguarding leads\, deputy heads\, pastoral leads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nThis 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. \nThe series is £650\, with recordings available for any sessions you are not able to attend live. Sessions can also be booked individually if preferred. \nThis 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. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand the critical role of safeguarding culture in promoting pupil welfare\nLearn how to build\, maintain\, and model effective safeguarding behaviours\nGain confidence in recognising signs of an unhealthy culture and knowing how to respond\nBe equipped to assess safeguarding culture against key benchmarks and indicators.”\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \n \nDale Wilkins\, Executive Director\, Scotland/Wales and Accredited/Compliance \nDale 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. \n\nOther titles in this series: \n\n\n\n1. Boarding box set – sector overview and market analysis\nNovember 02\, 2026\n\n\n2. Boarding box set – Safeguarding\nNovember 30\, 2026\n\n\n3. Boarding box set – Inclusion and belonging\nMarch 01\, 2027\n\n\n4. Boarding box set – understanding UKVI compliance\nMarch 05\, 2027\n\n\n5. Boarding Box Set: Building a Positive Staff Culture\nMarch 09\, 2027\n\n\n6. Boarding box set – Marketing considerations for boarding schools\nApril 21\, 2027\n\n\n7. Boarding box set – Preparing for a boarding inspection\nMay 24\, 2026\n\n\n8. Boarding box set – boarding house management\nJune 10\, 2027
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/boarding-box-set-safeguarding-essentials/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261201T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261201T153000
DTSTAMP:20260804T085518Z
CREATED:20260209T100150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T085518Z
UID:70288-1796119200-1796139000@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:SACPA Advanced Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice: option 1
DESCRIPTION:We offer a self-funding route for all courses.  We can arrange payment plans for manageable monthly amounts to make training accessible and affordable.  To find out more\, please e-mail Liz McDonald at liz.mcdonald@bsagroup.org.uk \n\n\nNew 26/27 course dates added!\n\nThe SACPA Advanced Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice is a certificate programme for safeguarding managers and leads\, heads of safeguarding\, safeguarding hub managers and co-ordinators.  It has been developed to support safeguarding colleagues from a diversity of sectors to supplement and extend designated safeguarding lead training.  This programme may also support the safeguarding practice of behaviour leads\, SENCO’s\, pastoral support leaders and Designated Teachers for Looked After Children. \nKey areas of contemporary safeguarding practice are explored in depth with particular attention to their application to leadership and management of safeguarding\, interface with governors\, trustees and board members responsible for oversight and scrutiny and the multi-agency safeguarding system beyond. \nSACPA Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice – Option 1 \n\nStudy Day 1: December 1st\, 2026\nStudy Day 2: January 22nd\, 2027\nStudy Day 3: April 20th\, 2027\nStudy Day 4: June 11th\, 2027\n\nAll Study Days will be held online via Zoom. \nTimings: 10:00-15:30 GMT/BST \nCourse Outline for Option 1 \n\nSafeguarding through the lens of Child/Student Voice\nContextual safeguarding\, Child-on-Child\, Exploitation and Radicalisation\nVictims\, Survivors and trauma-informed practice\nLeaders\, Governance and Partnerships.\n\nTO BEGIN SACPA Certificate in Child Safeguarding Practice: Option 1 CLICK HERE \nThe aims of the SACPA Advanced Certificate course are to: \n\nProvide development for safeguarding leads to explore beyond Designated Safeguarding Lead Training\nFocus on specific contemporary safeguarding subjects and developments\nSupport management and leadership of safeguarding\, bridging the gap between operational delivery\, the provision of management information to support strategic planning\, oversight and working in partnership with trustees and governance bodies and local safeguarding partners\nIncrease confidence and competence through opportunities to study and develop expertise in specific areas of professional interest\nEnhance a professional career path in safeguarding and to provide SACPA recognition of your achievement and successful completion of the course\nTo contribute to improved practice and raising standards within the safeguarding setting\nFoster reflection and critical evaluation of safeguarding practice and professional issues\, and to provide opportunities to share experience and good practice with colleagues.\n\nHow is the course organised? \nThe course is organised around a combination of four intensive on-line study days which contain a variety of teaching methods and opportunities to learn in different ways\, which include short lectures\, presentations and discussions led by students\, together with group problem solving exercises and case studies. \nGroup discussion is a particularly important aspect of this course\, enabling delegates to look at the theory in light of their own practical experience. Students will be encouraged to contribute ideas\, opinions and questions\, taking responsibility for their own learning\, whilst contributing to the learning of the group as a whole. \nThe course is run by senior members of the SACPA staff.  Each delegate will have an experienced SACPA Tutor who attends the study days. \nCourse Assessment \nDelegates may choose assessment via portfolio or assignment. \n\n \nDale Wilkins : Senior Director BSA Group \nDale Wilkins spent 31 years working in schools\, mainly in residential education\, of which eleven years were as safeguarding lead. He has also had safeguarding responsibilities in youth group\, sports and church settings\, was a multi-agency safeguarding trainer for Dudley Safeguarding Children Board and has completed an extensive “Train the Trainer” course with NSPCC. In September 2017 he took over safeguarding responsibilities at BSA\, and subsequently BSA Group and Sacpa. HE also gave evidence to the IICSA inquiry on behalf of BSA. \n  \n\nNikki Holmes : Safer Together\nContextual Safeguarding and Exploitation \nNikki has served as a police officer\, been a service manager for a young person’ substance misuse service\, is an experienced Children’s Services Inspector for the CQC\, and more recently launched her own consultancy  Safer Together www.safer-together.co.uk\, which is a proud member of the WeProtect Global Alliance. An expert in safeguarding with expertise and extensive experience of working in the fields of Child Exploitation\, County Lines and Modern Slavery\, Nikki now provides independent consultancy and training to a range of organisations including the NHS and Local Authorities. \nNikki is also a guest lecturer\, a public speaker and an independent author of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews\, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews. \n\nDez Holmes : Director\, Research in Practice\nDez Holmes is the Director of Research in Practice\, a not-for-profit organisation that since 1996 has been supporting those who work with children\, families and adults to use evidence\nin their practice and leadership. Dez has several years’ experience of training and workforce and leadership development; she is the Programme Director for the Practice Supervisor Development Programme. Her practice experience is largely within youth offending services and early help. She is particularly interested in adolescence\, transitions\, risk and participatory practice; Dez has led Research in Practice’s work on Adolescent / Transitional Safeguarding; she is the Programme Director for the Tackling Child Exploitation Programme and also chairs the Contextual Safeguarding UK Advisory GroupReflective session for safeguarding leaders: child exploitation and extra-familial harm – including transition to adulthood – focus on the importance of child’s voice and participation Find out more about Dez Holmes Publications here \n\nPhilip Baines : Safeguarding and Training Consultant \nPhilip was a Detective having spent 30 years in the police. The last 14 years of his police service was in the Child Abuse Investigation Unit (CAIU). He is also qualified as the following: \n\n\n\n\n\n  Family Liaison Officer (FLO)\n\n\nDisaster Victim Identification Officer (DVI)\n\n\nSignificant Witness interviewer (Sig Wit)\nEnhanced Cognitive Witness Interviewer\nDomestic Abuse Officer\nPIP Level 2 investigator\nAchieving Best Evidence (ABE- VRI vulnerable and intimidated witness interviewer)\nSpecialist Child Abuse Investigative Development Programme (SCAIDP)\nJoint Investigator – Section 47 Children Act ‘89\n\nPhilip was also seconded to the Training Department for 2 years\, where he received qualifications in training and delivered all these subjects\, including Harmful Sexual Behaviours (HSB). Philip is a qualified AIM3 Assessor of children displaying HSB. Philip also quality assured the Home Office Harmful Sexual Behaviours Support Service (HSBSS) where he oversaw and triaged all the requests for support and advised personally on all the complex cases. Philip supports survivors and families who have been victim of all types of abuse\, including technology assisted child sexual abuse (TACSA) through his work as a consultant for the Marie Collins Foundation.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/sacpa-advanced-certificate-in-child-safeguarding-practice-option-1-3/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Accredited Training,Online
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270115T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270115T103000
DTSTAMP:20260804T140803Z
CREATED:20260409T132244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260804T140803Z
UID:74177-1800005400-1800009000@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Managing the Single Central Register (SCR)
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Safeguarding Leads\, Governors\, Trustees\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nIs your Single Central Record (SCR) fully compliant? \nAll schools and colleges are required to maintain a SCR in accordance with statutory guidance and relevant legislation. However\, common issues such as inaccuracies and missing information continue to pose compliance risks\, often leading to poor inspection outcomes and negative safeguarding judgements. \nThis webinar is designed to support staff with operational or oversight responsibility for the SCR. It will provide practical advice and clarity on how to meet latest compliance requirements and maintain a robust and accurate record. \nTraining topics will include how long to retain relevant evidence\, procedures for maintenance and auditing\, and actions to take when a staff member or volunteer is found unsuitable. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nGain an understanding of key legislation and statutory guidance related to the SCR\nLearn how to develop a comprehensive checklist for compliance audits\nUnderstand best-practice procedures for maintaining and checking the SCR\nKnow what to review and record when a staff member’s or volunteer’s suitability changes\n\nUnable to attend live? A post-webinar recording will be available. Email bsa@boarding.org.uk to purchase. \nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/managing-the-single-central-register-scr-5/
LOCATION:Virtual – Zoom\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
ORGANIZER;CN="The Safeguarding and Child Protection Association (Sacpa)":MAILTO:info@sacpa.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270128T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270128T153000
DTSTAMP:20260806T100608Z
CREATED:20260409T133813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T100608Z
UID:74183-1801132200-1801150200@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Safer recruitment consortium accredited certificate
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £235\n🎧 HR Teams\, Senior Leadership\, Governors and Trustees\n📍 Online\n \n\nCourse outline: \n\nThis accredited training course is the widely accepted UK standard for safer recruitment recognised by the government. In line with statutory guidance\, every recruitment panel involved in appointing individuals to work with children must include at least one member who has completed appropriate safer recruitment training.\n\nDelivered by an approved Safer Recruitment Consortium trainer\, this course reflects current legislation and best practice\, drawing on updates to the national Guidance for Safer Working Practice to address evolving expectations around professional conduct.\n\nDeveloped for the education sector by the Safer Recruitment Consortium\, the programme has been expanded to cover all settings involving working with children.\n\nTraining topics will include: \n\nSafer recruitment and the wider context of safeguarding\nPrevalence of abuse and profile of abusers\nHow abusers operate within organisations\nFeatures of a safer recruitment process\nPlanning a safer recruitment process\nMaking the right decisions: interview and selection\nSetting acceptable standards of behaviour\nMaintaining an ongoing culture of vigilance.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nCPD/Certification: All participants will receive an accredited SRC course completion certificate alongside participant guidance handbooks. \n\nBOOK NOW \n\nThis event is held in collaboration with: \n \n  \n  \nSpeaker: \nSteve Hall\, Chair of the National LADO Network \nSteve brings over 40 years of experience as a qualified social worker and Service Manager in Social Care for various Local Authorities with a background of Front door services\, assessment\, Child Protection\, care experienced children\, Children with Disabilities\, and Quality Assurance. \nHe is an experienced LADO and held the elected role of Chair of the National LADO Network for over 6 years\, stepping down recently in order to focus on training commitments. Steve is an experienced trainer\, providing tailored safeguarding training to a variety of settings. He also provides consultancy\, including investigations\, safeguarding audits\, for a wide range of sectors\, including the police\, Faith\, Sports\, Fostering\, Education\, Early Years and Youth Services. \n 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/safer-recruitment-consortium-accredited-certificate-3/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270310T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270310T120000
DTSTAMP:20261006T091033Z
CREATED:20260423T142813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T091033Z
UID:74775-1804676400-1804680000@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Safeguarding duties for Child Students: Care arrangements\, absences and holidays
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Admissions departments\, International Student Liaison Officers\, Senior Leadership Team\, Pastoral Staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse Outline \nUKVI has – rightly – intensified its focus on the welfare and safeguarding of Child Students. Scrutiny is being applied both at in-person inspections and remotely through sponsor record reviews. So\, do you understand what is expected of you as a Student sponsor? \nHow do you assess whether a care arrangement is appropriate? How does a sponsored student’s absence impact your sponsor licence? What records do you need to make for holidays and travel plans? A review of the duties listed in the Student sponsor guidance is simply not sufficient to equip you with the answers to these questions; a deeper understanding of the sector risks involved and the reasoning behind such compliance responsibilities is key. \nIf this is an area of confusion or concern for you\, or if you want assurance that you are getting it right\, please join us and rest-assured you are not alone. We’ll be providing risk-assessment questionnaires\, practical solutions and best practice tips in this jam-packed 1-hour training session\, along with a live Q&A. \nThis 1-hour session will cover important topics including: \n\nUKVI’s key focus areas\nSponsor compliance best practice\nSafeguarding risks\nCare arrangements\nRecording and reporting attendance and absences\nHolidays\, leave-outs and exeats\n\nKey takeaways: \n\nFirst-hand insight into the areas UKVI is looking into right now;\nPractical solutions for meeting your sponsor duties and\, most importantly\, protecting your sponsored students;\nConfidence in enforcing your policies and procedures with parents\, guardians\, agents – and colleagues;\nAn understanding of the real-life risks involved;\nClarity of your duties and why compliance is so important.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \n \nKate Hollyer\, Director of BSA Legal\nKate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group\, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal\, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years. \nHer work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level\, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s\, immigration compliance is safeguarding\, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career. \nKate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group\, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/safeguarding-duties-for-child-students-care-arrangements-absences-and-holidays/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270322T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270322T123000
DTSTAMP:20260806T095114Z
CREATED:20260421T125956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260806T095114Z
UID:74649-1805711400-1805718600@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Supporting young people with eating disorders
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Boarding staff\, medical staff\, Head of Boarding\, Deputy Head\, mental health leads\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nEating disorders are wide-ranging and complicated\, and remain high on the list of risk areas in mental health care and provision\, especially for young people. Eating disorders are a complex mental illness with a high mortality rate\, not only down to the eating disorder and malnutrition\, but also suicide. For staff working with young people\, having the confidence to offer support\, and open up conversations about eating disorders can be nerve-wracking. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nDisordered Eating vs an eating disorder?\nRecognising early signs of disordered eating and eating disorders in students\nIdentifying high risk students\nHow to tackle disordered eating in schools?\nHow to approach a student of concern?\nLanguage to use around food and exercise (Do’s and Don’ts)\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand the difference between eating disorders and disordered eating\nImproved confidence in approaching people you may think are displaying signs of needing early intervention\nSigns and symptoms of eating disorders\nDo’s and don’ts when it comes to supporting people with eating disorders\nUse of language around food and exercise\nUnderstanding neurodiversity and eating habits\nCultural differences for international students\nSeeking appropriate clinical intervention and signposting to support\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \nTina McGuff\, author\, international speaker and advocate for mental health.  \nHaving shared her struggles in her critically acclaimed memoir\, Seconds to Snap\, Tina has established herself as a leading voice on eating disorders\, mental health wellness and is a regular contributor across national media. Tina has appeared on Lorraine\, Channel 5\, ITV\, STV\, BBC as well as Jeremy Vine\, Radio 1 and other national and international media outlets. \nTina grew up in Dundee and spoke of her life being perfect – or so she thought. “I can tell you exactly the day it all went wrong – the day my mum attacked my dad with a kitchen knife. In those few\, short seconds\, a black hole opened up in my life and I fell right in.” Tina’s world turned upside down. Tina turned to the one thing she thought she could control – food and from this moment\, began the biggest fight of her life. \nTina openly shares her life-or-death struggle with anorexia and the darkest moments she experienced in her life whilst in and out of psychiatric wards. Tina enlightens her audience to inner struggles and silence that individuals face with any mental health disorder. \nTina now works to raise awareness and education through workshops\, talks and training across the world as far as Dubai and Abu Dhabi\, invited by the Prime Minister’s Office in the UK and across schools in the USA. Tina shares her insight to help leaders and managers support colleagues and their families via her Three T’s model – supporting difficult conversations that could save and change people’s lives as well as building stronger relationships within the workplace.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/supporting-young-people-with-eating-disorders-4/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270324T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270324T120000
DTSTAMP:20260805T091318Z
CREATED:20260423T112021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T091318Z
UID:74739-1805886000-1805889600@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Bystanders and upstanders (anti-bullying)
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Deputy Head\, Inclusion Lead\, Head of Boarding\, Teaching and Boarding staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nEvery child\, and probably every adult\, has been a bystander at some point in time. A bystander is someone who witnesses bullying but does not get involved. Being a bystander is easy – they aren’t the perpetrator and they are not the one outwardly being harmed or the target of the attack. \nIn every situation it’s necessary to have somebody who does something that prevents or reduces the bullying they see – an upstander. Upstanders are people who comes to the aid of another person who is being bullied and shows them kindness. \nMoving from being a bystander to becoming an upstander will not happen overnight. This webinar will give you the tools needed to support your staff and pupils on their journey to becoming an upstander. \nLearning outcomes: \n\nCharacteristics of a bystander\nWhat it means to be an upstander\nHow to engage next time someone witnesses bullying and being their upstander.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \nJonathan Charlesworth MBE \nJonathan Charlesworth MBE is Director of Educational Action Challenging Homophobia (EACH) with over 40 years’ experience in teaching\, training and developing resources on LGBT+ legislation and anti-discrimination across education\, the criminal justice system\, the NHS and government. A government adviser\, he has been commissioned four times by the English and Welsh administrations to produce national anti-bullying resources and training for schools\, and is currently supporting the Welsh Government’s revision of Rights\, Respect\, Equality. He is author of How to Stop Homophobic and Biphobic Bullying and That’s So Gay!. In 2025 he was awarded an MBE for services to education\, justice\, health and government.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/bystanders-and-upstanders-anti-bullying-4/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270413T133000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270413T153000
DTSTAMP:20260805T093633Z
CREATED:20260423T142627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T093633Z
UID:74772-1807623000-1807630200@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Managing disputes between boarders
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £135\n🎧 Boarding and pastoral staff\, Deputy Heads\, Heads of Boarding\, all staff\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nThis course will look at some of the key tensions within a boarding house which may lead to disputes – either ‘in the moment’ or ongoing. We will also discuss the issue of ‘relational aggression’ and how to identify and manage this. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nIdentifying types and causes of disputes and relationship problems between boarders.\nSetting a positive boarding house culture.\nWhen to intervene in a dispute.\nRelational aggression.\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nBe able to identify better disputes between boarders.\nForm new ideas for how to set a positive boarding culture to enable early intervention.\nUnderstand the concept of ‘relational aggression’ and develop strategies to combat it within your school.\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nDavid Walker\, Executive Director\, Boarding & Education and Director\, BSA/TIOB \nDavid is the Executive Director\, Boarding and Director BSA/TIOB  and joined the BSA group in August 2023. He has over 20 years’ experience in boarding schools and has worked in a range of schools in the UK and Africa\, alongside being a prep school governor and a trustee of a MAT. Before taking up his post at the BSA\, David was Deputy Head Pastoral at a large co-ed independent school in the South-East.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/managing-disputes-between-boarders-3/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270419T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270419T153000
DTSTAMP:20260805T094245Z
CREATED:20260423T143922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T094245Z
UID:74787-1808130600-1808148600@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Self-harm: understanding and responding
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £175\n🎧 Boarding staff\, Head of Boarding\, Deputy Head\, Mental health leads working with senior boarders\n📍 Online\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline \nThis is a course for all staff working in the education setting to help improve understanding and responses to self-harm presentations. A topic which is often misunderstood\, highly stigmatised and hidden is delivered in a relatable manner. \nTraining topics will include: \n\nBetter understanding self-harm (definition / triggers / functions / statistics)\nRelationship between self-harm and suicide\nSigns and indicators of self-harm\nBroaching suspected self-harm\nBest practice response to disclosures (alternative strategies / language use / general response)\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nUnderstand what self-harm behaviours are and what can lead to them\nUnderstand the importance of asking about suicidal thoughts when presented with self-harm\nHave improved confidence in broaching and responding to disclosures\, appreciating the importance of appropriate language use\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker:
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/self-harm-understanding-and-responding-4/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270420T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270420T110000
DTSTAMP:20260805T094721Z
CREATED:20260804T123124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260805T094721Z
UID:78225-1808215200-1808218800@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Managing the Single Central Register (SCR) in boarding schools
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 All who have responsibility and oversight responsibility of safer recruitment and regulatory compliance including safeguarding professionals and leaders\, trustees\, board members and governors\, bursars and HR professionals.\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \nCourse outline: \nIs your Single Central Register compliant? \nSchools and colleges must keep a Single Central Record in line with statutory guidance and associated legislation. However\, inaccuracies and missing data in the single central register remains a key area of compliance concern resulting in poor regulatory inspection outcomes which are reflected in judgements on safeguarding leadership. \nThis webinar is developed to support colleagues who have operational and oversight responsibility for the Single Central Record. It covers; \n\nSupporting guidance\nInformation required for SCR\nRetention of evidence\nProcedure for maintaining and checking the SCR\nWhat happens on the SCR if staff or volunteers are found to be unsuitable..\n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nReview of underpinning legislation and guidance\nHow to develop a checklist of SCR requirements for compliance audit\nHow to implement recommended procedures for maintaining and checking the SCR\nWhat to consider in reviewing the SCR if there is a change in suitability.\n\nBOOK NOW \nThis is being held jointly with 
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/managing-the-single-central-register-scr-in-boarding-schools/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270504T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270504T140000
DTSTAMP:20261023T162344Z
CREATED:20260423T143535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261023T162344Z
UID:74783-1809435600-1809439200@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Child Student and Student visas: What you need to know
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 All boarding practitioners\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up \n\nCourse Outline: \nThe offer letter has been sent and CAS issued\, what next? Improve your school’s ‘international student journey’ by increasing your knowledge of the visa application process. Understanding this vital next step will enable you to support your student before they’ve walked through the school gates\, whilst helping prevent unnecessary mistakes that could easily lead to a visa refusal. \nThis 1-hour session will cover useful topics including: \n\nLegal and documentary requirements\nProcedure and timeframes\nCommon pitfalls\nUKVI decisions and ‘What to do when…’\nHints and tips\n\nBOOK NOW \n\nSpeaker: \n \nKate Hollyer\, Director of BSA Legal\nKate advises independent day and boarding schools on the immigration law governing their international student recruitment. She leads the legal function across Abitas Group\, heads its SRA-regulated practice BSA Legal\, and has practised in UK immigration law for over 15 years. \nHer work covers Student sponsor licence compliance at senior leadership and governance level\, and she acts for schools facing UKVI enforcement action. For schools sponsoring under-18s\, immigration compliance is safeguarding\, and much of her practice sits where sponsor duties and safeguarding frameworks meet. She has lived in boarding schools throughout her career. \nKate represents the school sector on the Home Office’s Future Border and Immigration System (FBIS) Education Advisory Group and the UK Agent Quality Framework Steering Group\, and the boarding sector at the All-Party Parliamentary Group for International Students. She is a qualified solicitor and a member of ILPA.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/child-student-and-student-visas-what-you-need-to-know/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270513T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270513T110000
DTSTAMP:20261027T150307Z
CREATED:20260410T102633Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261027T150307Z
UID:74269-1810202400-1810206000@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Contextual approaches to vaping behaviour
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Safeguarding leads\, pastoral leads\, boarding staff\n📍 Online\n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass \n\nCourse outline: \nChildren’s vaping behaviour is a key safeguarding and health concern which lends itself to contextual safeguarding as well as health education approaches.  \nThis webinar explores how contextual safeguarding approaches may support work to reduce and avoid the harm caused to children in contexts where vaping is commonplace\, encouraged\, or promoted and culturally embedded.  \nHow can contextual safeguarding approaches contribute to turning the tide of harm?  \nTraining topics will include: \n\nVaping and harm \nWhat we know about children’s vaping behaviour \nContextual safeguarding approaches \nThe contexts of children’s vaping behaviour \nFinding a way forward \n\nLearning outcomes \n\nDeepen your understanding of vaping harms and harms specific to children’s vaping behaviour \nRefresh understanding of contextual safeguarding approaches and how such approaches can support health education programmes \nSupport application of contextual safeguarding approaches to the challenge of harmful vaping behaviour in children \n\nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with: \n \n \n  \n  \n\nSpeaker: \nAsha Fowells \nAsha Fowells is Head of Education and Engagement at the DSM Foundation\, a drug education charity. This role reflects her background as a pharmacist – she qualified in 1998 – and journalist and drugs educator.  Asha is involved in the whole breadth of delivery\, from students to parents\, school staff and other professionals working with young people\, as well as training and mentoring drugs educators. She also does a lot of work behind the scenes at the Foundation\, including dealing with press enquiries\, writing resources\, and managing the charity’s communication channels. Asha is passionate about the aims of the DSM Foundation\, which is to help young people make safer choices about drugs – everyone should be able to get home safely.
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/contextual-approaches-to-vaping-behaviour-2/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270610T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270610T110000
DTSTAMP:20261029T142346Z
CREATED:20260410T125208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261029T142346Z
UID:74280-1812621600-1812625200@www.boarding.org.uk
SUMMARY:Keeping Children Safe in Education 2027 Update + Box Set
DESCRIPTION:🏷️ From £90\n🎧 Safeguarding Leads\, Governors\, Trustees  \n📍 Online \n🎥 Watch live or on catch up\n✅ Included in BSA CPD Pass\n \n\nCourse outline: \nThis webinar will look at the changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education for 2027 and will highlight the management and compliance implications.  \nKCSIE is for all practitioners in schools as well as governing bodies\, proprietors\, and management committees.  \nThe KCSIE27 box set includes;  \n\nA 1-hour webinar \nA 20-minute update video to use in annual safeguarding updates and staff safeguarding induction packages \nA quiz to use in annual safeguarding updates and staff safeguarding induction packages. \n\nTraining topics will include:  \n\nChanges to KCSIE \nImpact on policies and procedures \nImpact on professional practice. \n\nLearning outcomes: \n\nAwareness of changes to the guidance \nHow to update school policies and procedures to reflect the new guidance \nUnderstanding issues relating to implementation and dissemination to school staff. \n\nBOOK NOW \nThis event will be held jointly with:
URL:https://www.boarding.org.uk/event/keeping-children-safe-in-education-2027-update-box-set/
LOCATION:Online – Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Webinar
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