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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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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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Email security update for schools
Company News

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...

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New 2019/20 National Insurance Calculations
Financial Planning

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...

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Top tips for school staffing budget
Financial Planning

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...

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Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
Financial Planning

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...

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NEW Training Schoolz Module
Company News

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...

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Enhanced Budget Monitoring Tools at your disposal
Financial Planning

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...

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