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Posted on 14th January 2019
There is an issue relating to the Spring School Census
It has been brought to our attention that there is an issue relating to the Early Years, Top-up Funding and Post Looked After Arrangements within the Spring School Census. A patch has now been made ...
Posted on 14th January 2019
CTF issue message appearing following the Autumn Upgrade
If a school has already taken the patch and/or confirmed against the CTF pop-up boxes they will not be asked to re-tick the boxes when the Autumn release is taken. Please note: schools which did no...
Posted on 11th January 2019
Tasks to be done within SIMS in January
This is a reminder for the tasks that need to be undertaken this month within SIMS. The SIMS Yearbook provides a list of suggested tasks that can be carried out during the course of the academic ye...
Posted on 11th January 2019
Migrate your Secure Access account to DfE Sign-in
It has been brought to our attention that number of schools are having issues with logging in to DfE secure access. As the site has been migrated to DfE Sign-in you will need to do this before you u...
Posted on 9th January 2019
New Census Fileset 1102 for Spring Census 2019
As notified in the previous blog we have been waiting for a new census fileset which has just been released. This fileset provides the following changes compared to Fileset 1100 and is now available...
Posted on 9th January 2019
School census 2018 to 2019
Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post. The DfE has decide...
Posted on 8th January 2019
SIMS Spring Census guidance 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...
Posted on 8th January 2019
Catholic Education Service (CES) Census 2019
For some of you there are two Census’s to complete, the CES Census is the extra one. Please see below a link to a Completing the Census guide, along with a couple of bits taken from it to get you o...
Posted on 13th December 2018
Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
We have worked with Sage to produce a report template you can upload into your Excel Reports within Sage. This report will allow you to easily generate a Budget Monitor to import into SBS Online at j...
Posted on 12th December 2018
NEW Training Schoolz Module
Great for every School - Primary, Secondary, Specials and MATS Do you need a simple, fast and effective way to make sure your staff training is kept up to date? Training Schoolz is an online servi...
Posted on 4th December 2018
School census 2018 to 2019
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality. Therefore un...
Posted on 20th November 2018
SIMS Autumn Upgrade - 7.184
Your SIMS Autumn Upgrade is here! (7.184) We have attached a document to show you all of the latest improvements changes to SIMS within this upgrade. Of course you will require this Autumn version t...