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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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New release for the new term!
Financial Planning

Posted on 22nd September 2015

New release for the new term!

We’ve released a new update to SBS Online with a range of features: Exporting The majority of pages in the software are now exportable. The export to Excel option at the bottom left-hand corner...

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SBS Online update! KPIs & Analysis Tags
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th August 2015

SBS Online update! KPIs & Analysis Tags

Hope you are enjoying some hard-earned time off over the summer! We've released a new SBS Online update. It contains a range improvements with the two major features being Key Performance Indicators...

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SBS Online Webinar 8th July 2015
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th July 2015

SBS Online Webinar 8th July 2015

We held our first SBS Online webinar on Wednesday 8th July. It gave users a tour of the features of the new release. Missed it? No problem. Here's a recording of the webinar so that you can watch it a...

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New Teacher Scales for September 2015
Financial Planning

Posted on 8th July 2015

New Teacher Scales for September 2015

Following the announcement of the new pay scales for teachers from September 2015, we have created two new tables for you to choose between and apply in your budget settings: Teacher Scales – Sept...

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Welcome and new SBS Online update
Financial Planning

Posted on 1st July 2015

Welcome and new SBS Online update

Thanks for visiting the new SBS Online blog. This is where all of the latest news, tips and guidance will be posted. You can also read all of the previous ‘Latest news’ items from the SBS Online d...

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Latest News
Financial Planning

Posted on 15th May 2015

Latest News

Since our allowances update was added to SBS Online in April, we have been hard at work developing and testing another comprehensive update to the software. This new release will include several grea...

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SBS Online Allowances update
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th April 2015

SBS Online Allowances update

What is in the new Allowances update? Future Values for Allowances You will now be able to specify what allowances will be worth at any given effective date in your planner. This negates the need t...

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March has seen a great deal of development take place in preparation for the next series of updates to SBS Online.
Financial Planning

Posted on 1st April 2015

March has seen a great deal of development take place in preparation for the next series of updates to SBS Online.

We have been hard at work improving a range of aspects related to staff contracts and navigation within the software. April will see the first of these updates arrive. The new update will deliver an i...

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Latest news
Financial Planning

Posted on 11th February 2015

Latest news

During January, we have achieved several improvements to the software. Improvement 1 – NI effective dates. Hot on the heels of the salary scale effective dates is a similar roll-out for National I...

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Version table effective dates!
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th January 2015

Version table effective dates!

Our focus toward the end of 2014 was to cater for the new set of support salary scales that came into effect as of 1st January 2015. These new scales are unusual compared to previous, in that differe...

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October saw the introduction of a few low-key, visual enhancements to SBS Online.
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th November 2014

October saw the introduction of a few low-key, visual enhancements to SBS Online.

We were conscious that our focus had been on functionality over appearance for some time. A number of our customers had been requesting a more formal reporting appearance with some additional audit d...

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Our big development news from September was the completion of stage 2 of our multi-actions release
Financial Planning

Posted on 7th October 2014

Our big development news from September was the completion of stage 2 of our multi-actions release

In July, we introduced the ability to select and delete multiple items through a single process with minimal clicks. This latest release takes it a few steps further: users are now able to select mult...

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