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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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Teachers' Pay Scales 2019
Financial Planning

Posted on 18th September 2019

Teachers' Pay Scales 2019

The unions have released the Teachers' Pay Scales 2019. The NASUWT have uploaded the Main Teachers' Pay Scales and then separately Inner, Outer and Fringe London scales. As previously announced, t...

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SBS Online's back to school pre-summer roundup
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th September 2019

SBS Online's back to school pre-summer roundup

Not an SBS Online user yet? We're offering a 3-month trial! And just like that, it's time to go back to school. We hope you have enjoyed the sunshine and had a well-earned break. We have been bu...

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New Academy Chart of Accounts SBS Online Conversion
Financial Planning

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...

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New Academy Chart of Accounts 2019
Financial Planning

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...

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Important: Spam emails
Company News

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...

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Update to school Funding Predictor in SBS Online
Financial Planning

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...

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CFR Framework Changes
Financial Planning

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...

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DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
Financial Planning

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...

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NJC Support Scales Migration April '19
Financial Planning

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...

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April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
Financial Planning

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...

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Update following Teachers' Pension Scheme valuation
Financial Planning

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 ...

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Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
Financial Planning

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...

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