Featured Post

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.

Read more →

Latest News

Summer Update - Improved Budget Monitoring
Financial Planning

Posted on 11th July 2016

Summer Update - Improved Budget Monitoring

Our latest release includes a new budget monitoring report, several more improvements to SBS Online and some minor bug fixes. Budget Profile report This new report works in conjunction with your bud...

Read more →

Support staff pay scales 2016 - latest news
Financial Planning

Posted on 5th May 2016

Support staff pay scales 2016 - latest news

Just a quick update with regards to the support staff pay scales for 2016. You may well be aware of this, but for those of you who are not, we hope that this proves useful. In March, two of the recogn...

Read more →

School budget setting process
Financial Planning

Posted on 29th April 2016

School budget setting process

How was it for you? School budget setting process 2016-17 We are keen to hear about how you found your school budget setting process this year. With many schools submitting their budget in early May...

Read more →

Spring Update - Payroll Reconciliation and Salary Sacrifices
Financial Planning

Posted on 1st April 2016

Spring Update - Payroll Reconciliation and Salary Sacrifices

April begins with a new update to SBS Online and the most significant update we have made so far this year. Read the rest of this news article for an overview of the functionality or keep an eye on t...

Read more →

Important contact details update
Financial Planning

Posted on 26th February 2016

Important contact details update

Effective Monday 29th February, the SBS Online Service Desk contact details will change: For email enquiries, please contact: sbsonline@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk Additionally you can click the li...

Read more →

National Insurance 2016/17 – We got it spot on!
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th January 2016

National Insurance 2016/17 – We got it spot on!

We are delighted to announce that SBS Online has been projecting 2016/17 employer contributions for National Insurance correctly since February 2015. The government has announced the new thresholds a...

Read more →

SBS Online releases new Support Salary Scales for 2016 & 2017
Financial Planning

Posted on 21st January 2016

SBS Online releases new Support Salary Scales for 2016 & 2017

A number of our customers have been requesting we look into the pending April Support salary scales. Although yet to be finalised we understand you need to get to grips with your budget as soon as p...

Read more →

Setting a new budget?
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th January 2016

Setting a new budget?

We have received a few calls from customers asking to be reminded about how they go about setting up a new budget for the new year. Remember you can create a new budget for the new year whilst still ...

Read more →

SBS Online Update: Theme Selector and Other Improvements
Financial Planning

Posted on 17th December 2015

SBS Online Update: Theme Selector and Other Improvements

Our new SBS Online update contains several improvements, plus some bug fixes. Theme selector Choose how your SBS Online planner looks by selecting a different theme. By default, one of the new themes ...

Read more →

Have you updated your Additional Staffing allowances?
Financial Planning

Posted on 24th November 2015

Have you updated your Additional Staffing allowances?

Here at SBS HQ we are committed to ensuring customer satisfaction. As part of this we make it our responsibility to perform random spot checks on planners every now and again. If and when we see anyt...

Read more →

SBS Online Release: Improved Excel Exports
Financial Planning

Posted on 29th October 2015

SBS Online Release: Improved Excel Exports

Our latest release contains three significant enhancements plus a couple of minor bug fixes. Excel Exports Both this and the previous release have standardised and improved the process for exporting...

Read more →

Update: September 2015 Teacher Pay Scales
Financial Planning

Posted on 21st October 2015

Update: September 2015 Teacher Pay Scales

Due to popular demand, we have created a third teacher pay scale table for you to choose and apply in your budget settings, named 'Teacher Scales – Sept 2015 (C)'. This table features a standard 1% ...

Read more →