BSA & GSA webinar – Safeguarding

Name: BSA & GSA webinar – Safeguarding
Start: 2022-01-10T16:00:00+00:00
End: 2022-01-10T17:00:00+00:00
Location: Virtual – Zoom

10 January 2022 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Date: January 10, 2022
Time: 16:00 – 17:00
Cost: BSA Full / GSA Member – £50 / Additional BSA Full / GSA Member – £10, BSA Affiliate Member £75 / Additional BSA Affiliate Member £15, Non-member – £100
Audience: All safeguarding, leadership and pastoral practitioners
Platform: Zoom (online)

This webinar will explore key and emerging safeguarding themes and will consider how best to safeguard and promote the welfare of young people in relation to the contemporary risks.

Training topics will include:

Key safeguarding themes for 2022
Dealing with peer-on-peer abuse situations
Promoting best outcomes for girls and young women.

Learning outcomes:

Increase understanding of current safeguarding risks
Develop appropriate responses within the school’s circumstances
Consider how to promote best outcomes as well as safeguard from risk.

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Trainer

Dale Wilkins, Director of Safeguarding, Professional Development and Accreditation, BSA Group

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s accredited training programme. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter, the Annual Safeguarding conference, and the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members.

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 and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. He has also completed “Training for Trainers” with NSPCC. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.

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