{"id":118,"date":"2012-02-20T23:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hilarymoriarty.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2012-02-20T23:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T22:33:25","slug":"from-disadvantage-to-high-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/j-moriarty.co.uk\/hilarymoriarty\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"From disadvantage to high finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The week begins with a meeting with The Buttle Trust, which is hoping to increase the number of disadvantaged children it assists into boarding school, from its present number of 300 to 800 by 2017.\u00a0 The Buttle Trust already works with 120 schools, and hopes to increase this number so that good places can be found for more children who might be about to slide towards the care system, but whose educational outcomes are likely to be a great deal better if they can access a welcoming environment in which learning thrives.\u00a0 BSA’s extensive programme of training for boarding staff offers considerable scope to support schools involved in this important development of the Trust’s work.
\nLater this week to Wellington Academy, one of the academies which persuaded the last Government to invest in boarding accommodation to extend\u00a0its facilities.\u00a0 Having welcomed its first boarders in September 2011, the Academy is now working hard to recruit for September 2012.\u00a0 I look forward to seeing its great new facilities.
\nWe are delighted that the new Diploma course, starting in March, is now fully booked up with senior and experienced boarding staff,\u00a0many of whom have already completed the BSA Certificate course.\u00a0 Word is that the pioneering first students on the Diploma pilot course last year have produced\u00a0some\u00a0 absolutely outstanding work.\u00a0 The trailblazers have\u00a0set a high benchmark for their successors.
\nIt is also pleasing to report that the Certificate Course which begins with two residential days at Dauntsey’s School\u00a0 in the Easter holidays is full booked and has a waiting list.\u00a0 This one is a mystery to me – every year, mid February sees a flurry of phone calls asking if there is space on this particular course.\u00a0 Perhaps it is attractive because of the two day kick-start; perhaps it’s the charm of being in holiday time, not needing to take time out of a busy term; perhaps it’s half-term-itis, when houseparents fondly think of the training they’d really love to do – and lo! Here is just the thing!\u00a0 Whatever it is, we are really sorry to turn people away.\u00a0 We do hope entry on to another of the courses is possible, but if it really has to be Dauntsey’s or bust, then please contact us to start the list of attendees for next year!
\nLastly, common sense prevailed when I found the cost of a speaker for a conference next year.\u00a0 I think the topic, about how to get things done, and don’t we all need help with that? would have been useful.\u00a0 But the price tag was well in to five figures.\u00a0 I shudder to think what Olympian sportsmen will be able to charge for speeches by the Autumn of 2012, but if you have a sporting alumni who remembers his or her\u00a0school happily, you might want to book them before they get their gold medals and disappear into the financial stratosphere.
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