
Posted on 6th September 2016
Academy Year End Audit
The Academy Year has arrived! To help you to prepare for your audit School Business Services have produced a checklist to ensure you have everything covered. If you need any further assistance in pr...

Posted on 6th September 2016
Welcome to the new year
Another new academic year is upon us and we know that you have already been very busy in your schools preparing for the arrival of the new and returning pupils. Despite the summer holidays only jus...

Posted on 31st August 2016
Academic Year Planner
School Business Services has produced a calendar showing key events and deadlines for academies in the coming year. Download our planner! → Academic Year Planner September October Acc...

Posted on 24th August 2016
Top 10 tips to protect your school from computer viruses
Virus detection & prevention can be difficult to manage for busy schools with multiple users across site. We've provided some top tips to help you to combat the increasing number of virtual threa...

Posted on 23rd August 2016
Are you ready? Get set...
Having nearly understood the Omnium and Keirin watched at the Olympics, Quidditch and school finances seem simple (and JK Rowling agrees!). So with just a few days until school opens – are you re...

Posted on 23rd August 2016
Exams Performance Measures File version 2
Capita have released a version 2 of the Performance Measure File for exams information. This file along with the latest QAN catalogue are important for your reporting of exam results and analysis. ...

Posted on 15th August 2016
Exams Patches from Capita
Capita's escalation team have now passed the consolidated patch 22159 following testing and this will be released today. They apologise for the delay in getting this out and hope applying this as a ...

Posted on 11th August 2016
HR Policy Audit & Review
HR Policy Audit and Review - Autumn Offer Ensure your policies are up to date and legally compliant with a bespoke audit - just £499! Full review of up to 10 existing policies Assess content taki...

Posted on 10th August 2016
Teacher pay scales 2016/17
We have implemented the new teaching staff pay scales for 2016/17. The general rule is a 1% increase in value of each 2015/16 salary scale. Last year we introduced three scale tables - A, B and C. Th...

Posted on 5th August 2016
21 Questions To Ask . .
Last year the All Party Parliamentary Group on Education, Governance and Leadership published two lists of questions to challenge governance in schools and academies. One was to help challenge school...

Posted on 28th July 2016
Summer update - Outturn reporting
Our latest release provides further improvements to SBS Online: Outturn reporting We have added a new feature to show the previous year’s outturn. Simply go to ‘Settings > Budgets’, click ...

Posted on 22nd July 2016
National Funding Formula - Update
The Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening has released a written statement to Parliament on school funding. In the statement, she has said the national funding formula will be delayed an...