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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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How the UK Budget 2025-26 Will Impact Schools and Education
Financial Planning

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.

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Academy Year-End Preparation
Finance

Posted on 12th July 2024

Academy Year-End Preparation

Academy Year-End Preparation, a checklist and general advice to school staff

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Academies chart of accounts 2024-25 update
Finance

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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Changes to CFR coding 24/25
Finance

Posted on 17th May 2024

Changes to CFR coding 24/25

ICT and Technology CFR changes 2024 / 2025

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Make sure you don’t under-forecast backdated pay awards
Financial Planning

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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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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April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
Financial Planning

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...

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Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
Financial Planning

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...

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Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
Financial Planning

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...

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Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2018

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...

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Effect of the new Budget on schools
Finance

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...

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Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017

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...

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