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Posted on 11th August 2016
HR Policy Audit & Review
HR Policy Audit and Review - Autumn Offer Ensure your policies are up to date and legally compliant with a bespoke audit - just £499! Full review of up to 10 existing policies Assess content taki...
Posted on 10th August 2016
Teacher pay scales 2016/17
We have implemented the new teaching staff pay scales for 2016/17. The general rule is a 1% increase in value of each 2015/16 salary scale. Last year we introduced three scale tables - A, B and C. Th...
Posted on 5th August 2016
21 Questions To Ask . .
Last year the All Party Parliamentary Group on Education, Governance and Leadership published two lists of questions to challenge governance in schools and academies. One was to help challenge school...
Posted on 22nd July 2016
National Funding Formula - Update
The Secretary of State for Education Justine Greening has released a written statement to Parliament on school funding. In the statement, she has said the national funding formula will be delayed an...
Posted on 20th July 2016
School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions
School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) September 2016 Please be advised that the School Teachers’ Review Body has published its 26th report on the recommended changes to the School...
Posted on 18th July 2016
Schools Out
The last blog of the 2015/2016 Academic Year. I write this as a new Education secretary, Justine Greening, is appointed. No doubt over the summer we will see whether this changes the direction of gov...
Posted on 12th July 2016
Quick and easy document scanning directly into SIMS
Introducing Brother’s Direct Scan Solution Please note this product is currently unavailable from our Procurement service and this blog is now for reference only. To see our full product range vis...
Posted on 30th June 2016
How to add a School Closure in SIMS
If your school is fully or partially closed due to the proposed teacher strike on Tuesday 5th July 2016, the Y code should be used. Code Y: Unable to Attend due to Exceptional Circumstances If a...
Posted on 28th June 2016
Helping us to help you
As you might imagine, we have a very busy Service Desk here at SBS, and this is particularly true at peak times of year such as now. When you call us, it is essential that we take down some key item...
Posted on 17th June 2016
New data items required for the Autumn Census
The DfE have introduced 3 new data items to be collected in the Autumn 2016 Census, they are: 1. Pupil Nationality To be recorded for: all pupils on roll and pupils that have left since the start of...
Posted on 15th June 2016
Turnbull Report - A left field view on risk management for schools
Euro 2016 has started. Up and down the land adults and school children will be making assessments of the chances of their country in winning (at least one match), and thinking about mitigating the ri...
Posted on 7th June 2016
Top tips for effective exams analysis
With the busy exam season now upon us analysing your final exam results begins to rank highly on the list of priorities. This year the emphasis on exam outcomes is somewhat greater with new performan...