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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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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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Report the impact of COVID-19 on your budget in 7 easy steps
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th June 2021

Report the impact of COVID-19 on your budget in 7 easy steps

SBS Budgets enables you to create a bespoke analysis tag for COVID-19, in order to plan for COVID-related expenses.

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Key SBS contact for your MIS needs - Mark Wilson
MIS

Posted on 23rd June 2021

Key SBS contact for your MIS needs - Mark Wilson

Our team is continually growing to deliver the leading service for school MIS.

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Vital new service to protect your data - Enabling Encryption on Microsoft SQL Server
MIS

Posted on 22nd June 2021

Vital new service to protect your data - Enabling Encryption on Microsoft SQL Server

It has recently been reported in the news that two schools were forced to close after hackers accessed their servers, stole data and...

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Now open for submissions! Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO) and BFR3Year return
Finance

Posted on 22nd June 2021

Now open for submissions! Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO) and BFR3Year return

Academy trusts are required to submit their Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO) to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).

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SIMS End of Year Procedures for 2020/21
MIS

Posted on 15th June 2021

SIMS End of Year Procedures for 2020/21

Who’s on the countdown until the Summer Holidays? You all deserve a well-earned break after yet another very different year….but just before you pop off there’s a few little bits we need to get done so you’re all ready for September.

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Five things I know about School Business Leaders
SBL Day

Posted on 7th June 2021

Five things I know about School Business Leaders

Minerva is delighted to be a partner for #NationalSBLDay and I thought it was a great opportunity for me to reflect on what it is about SBLs that I love and admire so much.

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Moving MIS Webinar - 24th June 10-11
MIS

Posted on 3rd June 2021

Moving MIS Webinar - 24th June 10-11

How to prepare for implementing a new cloud MIS system

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NAHT blog - making a positive difference to children and young people
SBL Day

Posted on 2nd June 2021

NAHT blog - making a positive difference to children and young people

Rachel Younger, NAHT SBL council chair, explores the positive difference that SBLs can make to the children and young people in their schools.

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