Posted on 13th January 2017
New Update and Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to all of our customers and best wishes for 2017! The latest SBS Online update contains improvements to Staff Contracts, National Insurance calculations, multi-school KPIs, the default...
Posted on 9th January 2017
Cost pressures for schools and new Funding Formula
In the last few days of the Autumn term two key announcements were made on school funding. The first was a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on how prepared schools and academies were in re...
Posted on 30th November 2016
A Guide to the Apprenticeship Levy
The Apprenticeship Levy is a new government initiative announced in the 2015 Summer Budget that will come into force from April 2017. It is in effect a payroll tax that will apply to large organisati...
Posted on 7th September 2016
SBS Online - September Update
The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to service term management, cost centre usage and new functionality for Multi-Academy Trusts. Multiple Budget Codes to Service Terms It is...
Posted on 29th April 2016
School budget setting process
How was it for you? School budget setting process 2016-17 We are keen to hear about how you found your school budget setting process this year. With many schools submitting their budget in early May...
Posted on 22nd March 2016
Budget, and so much more
They say a week is a long time in politics. A week ago we had proposals for a national funding formula that meant all schools would be funded direct by the EFA from 2019-2020. In this week’s budget...
Posted on 27th January 2016
Piloting Our Way Through January
The warmest winter on record so far in some parts of the country. And in schools and academies everywhere the pace is hotting up – accounting returns to be made and budgets for 2016/17 to be prepar...
Posted on 25th January 2016
National Insurance 2016/17 – We got it spot on!
We are delighted to announce that SBS Online has been projecting 2016/17 employer contributions for National Insurance correctly since February 2015. The government has announced the new thresholds a...
Posted on 21st January 2016
National Insurance Rates 2016/2017
The new National Insurance table is now available and needs to be entered in to SIMS Personnel. The following table displays the new rates: Band Upper Monthly Earnings Limit Lower Monthly Earnin...
Posted on 7th December 2015
Conferences, Shows & Reviews - What was said.
Over the last few weeks there has been the NASBM Annual Conference, the Academies Show and the Spending Review. Here is our quick catch up on some of the talking points from these. Real term cuts fo...
Posted on 24th November 2015
Research, collaborate, streamline
The focus of the current government is to reduce the UK’s budget deficit – and whilst the government is currently committed to safeguarding existing school budgets, there will undoubtedly be dif...
Posted on 6th August 2015
SBS Online update! KPIs & Analysis Tags
Hope you are enjoying some hard-earned time off over the summer! We've released a new SBS Online update. It contains a range improvements with the two major features being Key Performance Indicators...