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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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SBS Budgets software update: Admin Console, Multi-School Report and Quick Salary Calculator
Financial Planning

Posted on 13th March 2023

SBS Budgets software update: Admin Console, Multi-School Report and Quick Salary Calculator

On Friday 10th March we deployed our latest enhancements to SBS Budgets, further underpinning our commitment to ongoing development.

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SBS Budgets software update: Every HR integration, Student Fees, IRIS sync & more
Financial Planning

Posted on 1st February 2023

SBS Budgets software update: Every HR integration, Student Fees, IRIS sync & more

On Tuesday 31st January we deployed our latest enhancements to SBS Budgets, further underpinning our commitment to ongoing development. For more detail, please read on…

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Teacher Strike Days service update
Finance

Posted on 20th January 2023

Teacher Strike Days service update

This blog is designed to give SBS customers the latest guidance around the Teacher Strike Days.

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SBS Budgets software update - Reforecasting now available! 
Financial Planning

Posted on 1st December 2022

SBS Budgets software update - Reforecasting now available! 

With so many twists and turns during the year, you need confidence in your financial position. We've improved SBS Budgets again and added new functionality! 

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SBS Budgets update - IRIS Sync setup guidance via our Assist app
Financial Planning

Posted on 13th October 2022

SBS Budgets update - IRIS Sync setup guidance via our Assist app

It's worth reminding our users that the PSF/IRIS Sync Tool can be very useful in reducing time spent on transferring data from SBS Budgets into your IRIS Financials system.

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SBS Budgets software update: NI, Student Fees, CoA
Financial Planning

Posted on 10th October 2022

SBS Budgets software update: NI, Student Fees, CoA

At SBS, our product team are always hard at work developing SBS Budgets to meet the needs and challenges of our users.

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SBS Budgets video - How to apply NI changes to your budget planner
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th October 2022

SBS Budgets video - How to apply NI changes to your budget planner

The NI rates have changed and SBS Budgets allows you to accurately reforecast your budget scenario and realise the impact on your school or trust.

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SBS Budgets update - NJC Support and Teacher Scales 2022
Financial Planning

Posted on 8th August 2022

SBS Budgets update - NJC Support and Teacher Scales 2022

We have released support and teacher scales into SBS Budgets

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SBS Budgets update - Teacher starting salaries increase
Financial Planning

Posted on 20th July 2022

SBS Budgets update - Teacher starting salaries increase

Teachers across the country will benefit from pay increases of between 5% and 8.9% from September, as the government has now fully accepted pay recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body for the next academic year.

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GAG pooling - A write up of our budgeting webinar for Multi Academy Trusts
Financial Planning

Posted on 8th April 2022

GAG pooling - A write up of our budgeting webinar for Multi Academy Trusts

As part of the SBS Coffee Club, we recently hosted a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) budgeting webinar on GAG pooling.

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School Budgeting Monthly Roundup - March
Financial Planning

Posted on 31st March 2022

School Budgeting Monthly Roundup - March

It’s been an exciting month in the world of school and MAT budgeting, so let's summarise the headlines.

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Meet Marcus - Supervisor of the SBS Online support team
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th March 2022

Meet Marcus - Supervisor of the SBS Online support team

Following a series of insightful articles from our staff about their day-to-day roles, we wanted to introduce the SBS Online Supervisor, Marcus Peedell.

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