Blogs & Updates
SIMS Spring Census guidance 2019
January 08 2019
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 17th January 2019
Happy New Year from us at SBS and apologies for being the bearer of bad news, it’s the Spring School Census next week and to get you go...
New Census Fileset 902 for Summer Census 2018
May 11 2018
Please note that this blog was previously issued with an incorrect fileset number.
As usual there has been a new fileset released.
Please ensure that you have had your Summer upgrade and are on SIM...
SIMS Summer Census 2018 guidance
May 02 2018
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 17th May 2018
It finally feels like Spring has come with April showers and glorious sunshine and along with it comes another census.
This one’s a nice ...
SIMS Spring Census guidance
January 12 2018
The SIMS Spring Census will be on Thursday 18th January 2018
Happy New Year from us at SBS and apologies for being the bearer of bad news, it’s the Spring School Census next week and to get you go...
Preparing for your Spring Census 2018
December 08 2017
Sorry to have to put a downer on your race to the Christmas holidays but it occurs that you’ll not be long back before you have to start thinking about your Spring School Census.
Don’t worry, thi...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance
September 19 2017
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 5th October 2017
With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
SIMS Summer Census guidance
April 28 2017
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017
Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return.
Preparing for th...
SIMS Spring Release 2017
March 06 2017
The next SIMS update is due for release on Friday 10th March 2017.
If we usually run the upgrade for you, please contact our MIS Service Desk on 0345 222 1551 • Option 3 as soon as possible so tha...
Spring Census 2017 - COLLECT issue resolved
January 20 2017
Further to our blog post yesterday afternoon we can confirm that the DfE have fixed the issue affecting Census file uploads to COLLECT.
Please contact us if you require any assistance with your Sp...
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
January 19 2017
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT.
We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
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