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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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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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SBS Budgets Spring Update 2022 - SBS Assist for ‘how to’ guides, CPD hints and tips
Financial Planning

Posted on 17th March 2022

SBS Budgets Spring Update 2022 - SBS Assist for ‘how to’ guides, CPD hints and tips

The SBS Budgets Spring Update has delivered three significant enhancements for users. This blog focuses on SBS Assist, which hosts a range of ‘how to’ guides for all SBS Online software.The SBS Budgets Spring Update has delivered three significant enhancements for users. This blog focuses on SBS Assist, which hosts a range of ‘how to’ guides for all SBS Online software.

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SBS Budgets Spring Update 2022 - New functionality for MATs
Financial Planning

Posted on 15th March 2022

SBS Budgets Spring Update 2022 - New functionality for MATs

The SBS Budgets Spring Update brings significant enhancements for MAT process streamlining.

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SBS Budgets update - NJC Support Salary Scales April 2021 and Provisional Teacher Scales 2022/23 & 2023/24
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th March 2022

SBS Budgets update - NJC Support Salary Scales April 2021 and Provisional Teacher Scales 2022/23 & 2023/24

The NJC Support Scales for 2021 and Provisional Teacher Scales 2022/23 & 2023/24 have now been confirmed.

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About the SBS Budgets integration with Arbor MIS and IRIS Financials
Financial Planning

Posted on 3rd March 2022

About the SBS Budgets integration with Arbor MIS and IRIS Financials

SBS Budgets is the leading integrated budget planning software. Did you know it synchronises with Arbor and IRIS Financials? And the integration is free!

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SBS Budgets update - National Insurance, Maternity Pay and Temporary NJC Increase 2022/23
Financial Planning

Posted on 28th February 2022

SBS Budgets update - National Insurance, Maternity Pay and Temporary NJC Increase 2022/23

The latest National Insurance, Maternity SMP rates and a temporary increase for NJC scales 1 and 2 have been announced by the government.

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SBS Budgets user workshop - Budget Setting
Financial Planning

Posted on 2nd February 2022

SBS Budgets user workshop - Budget Setting

We are delivering another free webinar focusing on budget setting.

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