Blogs & Updates
Effect of the new Budget on schools
March 15 2017
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...
2017/2018 National Insurance Rates for SIMS
February 14 2017
The new 2017/2018 National Insurance table rates will need to be added to SIMS Personnel.
The following table displays the new rates:
Band
Upper Monthly Earnings Limit
Lower Monthly Earnings Limi...
SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations
January 30 2017
The new 2017/18 National Insurance table is now available to apply to your budgets.
From April 2017, the employer's contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have increased...
New Update and Happy New Year!
January 13 2017
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...
Cost pressures for schools and new Funding Formula
January 09 2017
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...
A Guide to the Apprenticeship Levy
November 30 2016
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...
SBS Online - September Update
September 07 2016
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...
School budget setting process
April 29 2016
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...
Budget, and so much more
March 22 2016
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...
Piloting Our Way Through January
January 27 2016
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...
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