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Teacher Pay Award 2026: Certainty for Budget Planning, but Questions Remain

The 2026 teacher pay award brings greater certainty for schools and trusts. Explore funding, pension implications, unresolved costs and SBS planning tools.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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% ...

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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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