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Posted on 19th September 2017
SIMS Autumn Census guidance
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 5th October 2017 With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
Posted on 8th September 2017
Your updated Pupil Premium 2017/18
As many of you are no doubt aware, your Pupil Premium 'ticks' will not have carried over from last year and so will need to be re-entered. Thankfully to make our lives a little easier, you can down...
Posted on 4th August 2017
Summer Reading
July is often the month that the ESFA publishes its summer blockbusters, so that business managers in schools and academies have some essential reading for their beach holidays. Our top five reads fo...
Posted on 14th July 2017
SBS Online Update - In-Year Balances plus more
The latest SBS Online update contains a new in-year row balance for several reports, maximum scales for teacher contracts, and improvements to Excel exports and other commitments in the Budget Monito...
Posted on 9th June 2017
New Profile Report & Other Improvements
The latest update to SBS Online contains a new Profile Report with a Multi-School version, a Budget Upload and a range of improvements and bug fixes. Profile Report The new Profile Report can be fou...
Posted on 15th May 2017
Advice for schools on the Ransomware crisis
Following the recent NHS Ransomware crisis, as well as many other organisations being impacted, we feel it is important to send out an update on this subject. As covered in our previous blogs, ther...
Posted on 28th April 2017
SIMS Summer Census guidance
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017 Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return. Preparing for th...
Posted on 25th April 2017
The DfE, SARA and what it means for academies
In this blog we look a little deeper into why academies are required to complete additional returns, and catch up on other news from the EFA and TPS. Sector Annual Report & Accounts (SARA) As P...
Posted on 5th April 2017
Capita SIMS announces a major refresh
Have you heard about the next generation of SIMS? Capita SIMS announces a major refresh and have completely redesigned its SIMS system from the ground up. The changes start with the release of a red...
Posted on 3rd March 2017
Much To Do In March
After ‘Marching On’ - Hare’s another blog to ensure you are the best informed person in your school on finance and business matters. From The EFA The EFA have reminded academies, that after e...
Posted on 7th February 2017
Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16. These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...
Posted on 30th January 2017
January Update
As academies struggled to submit their AAR by the January deadline here is some news you may have missed. Academy Accounts Return As extensively reported, Peter Lauener has written to all academies p...