Posted on 12th January 2022
Arbor Spring Census 2022 guidance
Thursday 20th January 2022 is census day but for all you eager beavers you can carry out a dry run in Arbor now!
Posted on 7th January 2022
National Professional Qualifications (NPQs) Deadline Extension: Apply by 16 January
Outstanding Leaders Partnership, supported by Best Practice Network, have extended their Spring 2022 NPQ application deadline to the 16th January.
Posted on 13th December 2021
TeamSOS Heron Way Primary School case study
An inspiring example of how a Primary School replaced radios with teamSOS for their incident response solution
Posted on 7th December 2021
A day in the life of our MIS Service Desk team
Our MIS Service Desk team has provided some insight into their day-to-day work. We are currently accredited to support Arbor, ESS SIMS, IRIS Ed:gen and ScholarPack...
Posted on 22nd November 2021
Resource available from the DfE - Learn more about school funding
We wanted to make our Finance & Accountancy blog subscribers aware of some useful information available from the DfE's Education Hub blog.
Posted on 16th November 2021
MAT Centralisation under the spotlight
This article provides news and insight on MAT centralisation. SBS' experience with MAT operations has delivered some findings which you may find useful.
Posted on 10th November 2021
Sync staff data at the touch of a button - SBS Budgets and Arbor now integrated!
SBS Sync now includes leading MIS software, Arbor. Plan your budget more easily and accurately by syncing your data directly from Arbor MIS into SBS Budgets.
Posted on 4th November 2021
Important update: SIMS School Workforce Census Patch & Fileset
ESS have identified a serious issue with the School Workforce Census (SWC) within SIMS.
Posted on 19th October 2021
SIMS School Workforce Census
With the School Workforce Census fast approaching SBS is here to help you through it.
Posted on 7th October 2021
Moving MIS Webinar - 9th November 10-11
SBS and Arbor are delivering a free webinar exploring how to prepare for implementing a new cloud MIS system.
Posted on 24th September 2021
Some DfE updates to be aware of - additional funding for your school
We wanted to make our Finance & Accountancy blog subscribers aware of the new information available from .Gov.uk about additional funding for your school.
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.