Posted on 11th July 2019
New Academy Chart of Accounts SBS Online Conversion
Not an SBS Online user yet? We're offering a 3-month trial! Below is everything SBS Online customers need to know about the new Academy Chart of Accounts (ACOA). Following on from our previous b...
Posted on 27th June 2019
New Academy Chart of Accounts 2019
We have since released an update for SBS Online customers → The Government have released a new standardised Academy Chart of Accounts. The standardised Academy Chart of Accounts is for Budget C...
Posted on 24th June 2019
Important: Spam emails
.enforcedisplay { display: block!important; } We are seeing an increasing number of spam emails slip through the spam filtering net into users' inboxes. Typically these spam emails come from use...
Posted on 3rd May 2019
Update to school Funding Predictor in SBS Online
We have released a new and improved version of the school Funding Predictor. The new school Funding Predictor allows you to add Free Type lines to cater for more areas of funding. Any Free Type line...
Posted on 15th April 2019
CFR Framework Changes
There has been two changes to the CFR Framework for the financial year 2019/20. The Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) framework provides a standard template for all maintained schools to collec...
Posted on 11th April 2019
DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded. One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...
Posted on 9th April 2019
NJC Support Scales Migration April '19
SBS Online are offering two migration scripts for users to implement the new NJC Support Scales structure. The details of these migrations and how they would affect your budget have been emailed to...
Posted on 7th March 2019
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...
Posted on 28th February 2019
Update following Teachers' Pension Scheme valuation
As a result of the current valuation of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, the Government has determined that the employer contribution rate should increase to 23.68%. This change takes effect from 1 ...
Posted on 21st February 2019
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
As the financial year approaches one thing on everyone’s mind is creating their School Budget for next year. We have been thinking about ways we can make creating your 2019/20 Budget easier for yo...
Posted on 7th February 2019
Email security update for schools
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...
Posted on 4th February 2019
New 2019/20 National Insurance Calculations
The new 2019/20 National Insurance table is now available for you to apply to your budgets. From April 2019, the employer contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have bee...