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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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Arbor Covid Attendance
MIS

Posted on 21st September 2021

Arbor Covid Attendance

Arbor have archived the X03 and X04 codes (except for reporting), and introduced new X08 and X09 codes to help the DfE collect data on absences due to public health advice.

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SIMS Autumn Census 2021 guidance
MIS

Posted on 21st September 2021

SIMS Autumn Census 2021 guidance

Here’s your SIMS update on the latest guidance for the Autumn Term 2021 School Census.

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Arbor Autumn Census 2021 guidance
MIS

Posted on 21st September 2021

Arbor Autumn Census 2021 guidance

Thursday 7th October 2021 is census day but for all you eager beavers you can carry out a dry run in Arbor from Thursday 23rd September 2021.

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New system to ease the HR administration and planning burden for schools and academy trusts
Company News

Posted on 16th September 2021

New system to ease the HR administration and planning burden for schools and academy trusts

Strictly Education has launched a new single HR, payroll and pensions system designed specifically for the education sector.

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2021/2022 Covid Attendance Recording for Schools
MIS

Posted on 6th September 2021

2021/2022 Covid Attendance Recording for Schools

Welcome back from us all here at SBS! We’re looking forward to another great year with you all and hope you are too?

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Preparing school ICT for the new term - screens, servers, printers and more...
ICT

Posted on 23rd August 2021

Preparing school ICT for the new term - screens, servers, printers and more...

With the new autumn term just around the corner, now is a great time to check to see that everything is in place for your new students

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A day in the life of an SBS Online Consultant
Financial Planning

Posted on 13th August 2021

A day in the life of an SBS Online Consultant

I have realised that in this job there is never a standard day. I may be working on development and testing for a release one day, then providing training and service desk support for our users the next.

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My journey in school ICT so far
ICT

Posted on 5th August 2021

My journey in school ICT so far

Rhys Wood, our ICT Engineer tells of his time so far working with schools at SBS

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Wednesday budgeting webinars - Autumn 2021
Financial Planning

Posted on 3rd August 2021

Wednesday budgeting webinars - Autumn 2021

We are delivering another series of free webinars focusing on budgeting

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SIMS Pay is changing!
MIS

Posted on 20th July 2021

SIMS Pay is changing!

SIMS Pay is changing names - its new name is Pay360 Education Payments

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Why do I need Power BI?
MIS

Posted on 9th July 2021

Why do I need Power BI?

SIMS is great at storing all of your pupil and staff data. What it isn’t so good at is making that information easy to get at outside of school hours or turning that information in to knowledge about how your school is performing.

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Key SBS contact for your ICT needs - Graham Gould
ICT

Posted on 5th July 2021

Key SBS contact for your ICT needs - Graham Gould

We are pleased to introduce Graham Gould who has worked in several expert roles for 8 years at SBS and is your key contact for your ICT support needs in education.

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