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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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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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New Teacher Pay Scales
Financial Planning

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...

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Funding Predictor and other updates
Financial Planning

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...

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Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2018
Financial Planning

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...

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Interim Support Staff Pay Scales from April 2019
Financial Planning

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...

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SBS Online has a new look!
Financial Planning

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...

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Updated Support Staff Pay Scales from April 2018
Financial Planning

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...

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