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What the Spending Review 2025 Means for School Budgets

At School Business Services, we’ve reviewed the government's full Spending Review 2025 and pulled together the key takeaways and what they mean for your budget planning over the next few years.

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Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2017
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th July 2017

Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2017

We have implemented new teachers' pay scales for 2017/18 in SBS Online. All teacher pay scales have been increased by 1% from 1st September 2017, except for M1 to M6 which have been increased by 2%. ...

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SBS Online Update - In-Year Balances plus more
Financial Planning

Posted on 14th July 2017

SBS Online Update - In-Year Balances plus more

The latest SBS Online update contains a new in-year row balance for several reports, maximum scales for teacher contracts, and improvements to Excel exports and other commitments in the Budget Monito...

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New Profile Report & Other Improvements
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th June 2017

New Profile Report & Other Improvements

The latest update to SBS Online contains a new Profile Report with a Multi-School version, a Budget Upload and a range of improvements and bug fixes. Profile Report The new Profile Report can be fou...

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SBS Online's Funding Predictor
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th April 2017

SBS Online's Funding Predictor

New Funding Predictor ensures you are receiving the correct funding from your local authority. SBS Online’s Funding Predictor allows you to forecast your income for five years by referencing studen...

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SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations
Financial Planning

Posted on 30th January 2017

SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations

The new 2017/18 National Insurance table is now available to apply to your budgets. From April 2017, the employer's contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have increased...

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New Update and Happy New Year!
Financial Planning

Posted on 13th January 2017

New Update and Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all of our customers and best wishes for 2017! The latest SBS Online update contains improvements to Staff Contracts, National Insurance calculations, multi-school KPIs, the default...

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SBS Online – November Update
Financial Planning

Posted on 3rd November 2016

SBS Online – November Update

The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to parent planners of Multi-school trusts, new rounding options and a new set of tooltips on parent planners. Trust Schools In the 'Multi-sc...

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How to Budget for the Apprenticeship Levy
Financial Planning

Posted on 27th September 2016

How to Budget for the Apprenticeship Levy

The apprenticeship levy has been talked about for what seems like an eternity. It is now almost upon us and we have to budget for it accordingly. The levy comes into effect in April 2017 and will se...

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SBS Online - September Update
Financial Planning

Posted on 7th September 2016

SBS Online - September Update

The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to service term management, cost centre usage and new functionality for Multi-Academy Trusts. Multiple Budget Codes to Service Terms It is...

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Teacher pay scales 2016/17
Financial Planning

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...

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Summer update - Outturn reporting
Financial Planning

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 ...

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School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions
Financial Planning

Posted on 20th July 2016

School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions

School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) September 2016 Please be advised that the School Teachers’ Review Body has published its 26th report on the recommended changes to the School...

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