
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...

Posted on 30th January 2019
Top tips for school staffing budget
Here at SBS Online, we know just how important efficient Staffing Budgeting is. Therefore, we have been thinking about staffing tips to make your life easier! With the new Superannuation proposal f...

Posted on 13th December 2018
Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
We have worked with Sage to produce a report template you can upload into your Excel Reports within Sage. This report will allow you to easily generate a Budget Monitor to import into SBS Online at j...

Posted on 12th December 2018
NEW Training Schoolz Module
Great for every School - Primary, Secondary, Specials and MATS Do you need a simple, fast and effective way to make sure your staff training is kept up to date? Training Schoolz is an online servi...

Posted on 29th October 2018
Enhanced Budget Monitoring Tools at your disposal
Our latest release allows you to increase the range of assumptions made, whilst deriving a Projected Year End position that you most understand. Until now the Budget Monitor has only used a one optio...