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...
Posted on 21st September 2018
New Teacher Pay Scales
We have updated our pay scales to the official amounts announced. The majority of the new teacher pay scales matched our predictions, the main differences were on the Unqualified scales. These inclu...
Posted on 11th September 2018
Funding Predictor and other updates
We have introduced a new version of our Funding Predictor in SBS Online. The new version Funding Predictor allows our schools who have FSM plus FSM6 to input both of these values. We have also update...
Posted on 29th August 2018
Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2018
We have implemented new Teachers' Pay Scales for 2018/19 in SBS Online. The new scales are STC (subject to confirmation) while we wait for official news about the rates in Inner London, Outer Londo...
Posted on 20th June 2018
Interim Support Staff Pay Scales from April 2019
We have released updated interim values for support staff national pay scales effective from 1st April 2019 In April 2019 the scale points will be restructured, for now the new rates will update e...
Posted on 14th May 2018
SBS Online has a new look!
After much discussion, designing, testing and long nights, the SBS Online team is happy to present the new and improved budget management software. Thankyou to our schools for their kind words whils...
Posted on 30th April 2018
Updated Support Staff Pay Scales from April 2018
Today we have released updated values for support staff national pay scales effective from 1st April 2018. These values are part of the following new table: Support Scales - 2018 Final These incl...