
Posted on 12th November 2024
How the UK Budget 2025-26 Will Impact Schools and Education
Discover how the UK Budget 2025-26 impacts schools in England and Wales. Get the full breakdown for school leaders on budget changes and funding allocations.

Posted on 12th July 2024
Academy Year-End Preparation
Academy Year-End Preparation, a checklist and general advice to school staff

Posted on 18th June 2024
Academies chart of accounts 2024-25 update
The ESFA have today published the Academies Chart of Accounts for 2024-25
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Posted on 14th December 2021
Make sure you don’t under-forecast backdated pay awards
We all know that pay awards never go through on the dates you expect them to/budget for.
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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).

Posted on 7th March 2019
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...

Posted on 21st February 2019
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
As the financial year approaches one thing on everyone’s mind is creating their School Budget for next year. We have been thinking about ways we can make creating your 2019/20 Budget easier for yo...

Posted on 13th December 2018
Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
We have worked with Sage to produce a report template you can upload into your Excel Reports within Sage. This report will allow you to easily generate a Budget Monitor to import into SBS Online at j...

Posted on 30th November 2017
Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2018
Statutory maternity and sick pay rates for 2018/19 The government has recently announced the changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2018. This includes maternity, adoption, paternity a...

Posted on 15th March 2017
Effect of the new Budget on schools
Effect of the new Budget on schools A week after the Budget we look at reactions to the announcements affecting the education sector. Budget Shorts A number of education reforms were announced in the...

Posted on 6th January 2017
Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017
Statutory maternity and sick pay rates for 2017/18 The government has recently announced the changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017. This includes adoption, paternity and shared p...