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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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Statement in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Company News

Posted on 11th March 2020

Statement in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Statement in relation to Coronavirus (COVID-19) This statement sets out the steps that School Business Services is taking to help keep staff safe from the Coronavirus and therefore maintain as consis...

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National Insurance rates 2020/21
Financial Planning

Posted on 5th March 2020

National Insurance rates 2020/21

This blog refers to SBS Budgets, our budget management software accessed anywhere via SBS Online. The National Insurance rates for 2020/21 have now been released by the HMRC. As in previous years, t...

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Term-time only staff may be owed backdated holiday pay
Financial Planning

Posted on 9th January 2020

Term-time only staff may be owed backdated holiday pay

This blog refers to SBS Budgets, our new look budget management software as part of the SBS Online evolution. There has been a change to the NJC National Agreement on Pay Conditions of Service (G...

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SBS Online is evolving to deliver more for all SBS customers
Financial Planning

Posted on 31st October 2019

SBS Online is evolving to deliver more for all SBS customers

This Autumn Term term SBS Online is moving up a set! After 10-years maximising school budgets we felt SBS Online was ready to take on additional solutions for school business management. Previou...

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Not using the national Teachers' Pay increases for 2019?
Financial Planning

Posted on 30th September 2019

Not using the national Teachers' Pay increases for 2019?

Using the National Scales? Please see our Teachers' Pay Scales 2019 blog. Teachers' Pay increases for 2019 have now been agreed, but is your academy or MAT following the national scales in your bud...

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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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