Safeguarding in Boarding Schools
🏷️ £90-180, with additional tickets from £45
🎧 Heads, Designated Safeguarding Leads, Houseparents, Boarding Managers, Pastoral and Residential Staff, Governors and all professionals working within boarding provision.
📍 Online
🎥 Watch live or on catch up
Boarding schools create rich, diverse, and life-shaping experiences for children and young people. However, they also present a unique safeguarding challenge.
This focused 1-hour webinar is designed to equip boarding staff, DSLs and leaders with the knowledge, skills and confidence to keep boarders safe within a 24-hour residential environment.
What This Webinar Covers
- Unique safeguarding risks in boarding environments
- Vulnerability factors for domestic and international boarders
- Peer-on-peer abuse, online harms and night-time supervision
- Managing disclosures, low-level concerns & staff boundaries
- Embedding a strong safeguarding culture in residential life
- Leadership and governance responsibilities
Key Takeaways
- Understand the distinctive safeguarding pressures in boarding settings
- Strengthen supervision, culture and boundaries in residential life
- Improve student trust, reporting and participation
- Respond confidently to concerns and disclosures
- Enhance leadership oversight and evidence for inspection
Why Attend?
This session provides practical tools, real examples, and sector-specific insights to help you create safer, more nurturing boarding communities and built on strong relationships, visibility, and proactive safeguarding practice.
Speaker: Dale Wilkins FTIOB, Executive Director, BSA Group 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 the DfE, while also overseeing the Group’s work in Scotland and Wales. A trainer and consultant for BSA and SACPA, he is Vice Chair of SAFCAB. Dale previously spent 31 years as a boarding practitioner, including roles as Housemaster and Deputy Head at Old Swinford Hospital. Beyond education, he trains for the Methodist Church, is a charity trustee, chairs a performing arts organisation, and volunteers widely.
