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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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SBS Online – November Update
Financial Planning

Posted on 3rd November 2016

SBS Online – November Update

The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to parent planners of Multi-school trusts, new rounding options and a new set of tooltips on parent planners. Trust Schools In the 'Multi-sc...

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How to Budget for the Apprenticeship Levy
Financial Planning

Posted on 27th September 2016

How to Budget for the Apprenticeship Levy

The apprenticeship levy has been talked about for what seems like an eternity. It is now almost upon us and we have to budget for it accordingly. The levy comes into effect in April 2017 and will se...

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Calculations for Pupil Premium 2016-2017
MIS

Posted on 8th September 2016

Calculations for Pupil Premium 2016-2017

In order to assist you in understanding the pupil level, pupil premium information provided in CSV format by the DfE, we have provided you with a spreadsheet for download, along with a presentation ...

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SBS Online - September Update
Financial Planning

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...

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Teacher pay scales 2016/17
Financial Planning

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...

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Summer update - Outturn reporting
Financial Planning

Posted on 28th July 2016

Summer update - Outturn reporting

Our latest release provides further improvements to SBS Online: Outturn reporting We have added a new feature to show the previous year’s outturn. Simply go to ‘Settings > Budgets’, click ...

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Summer Update - Improved Budget Monitoring
Financial Planning

Posted on 11th July 2016

Summer Update - Improved Budget Monitoring

Our latest release includes a new budget monitoring report, several more improvements to SBS Online and some minor bug fixes. Budget Profile report This new report works in conjunction with your bud...

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Support staff pay scales 2016 - latest news
Financial Planning

Posted on 5th May 2016

Support staff pay scales 2016 - latest news

Just a quick update with regards to the support staff pay scales for 2016. You may well be aware of this, but for those of you who are not, we hope that this proves useful. In March, two of the recogn...

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Budget, and so much more
Finance

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...

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SBS Online releases new Support Salary Scales for 2016 & 2017
Financial Planning

Posted on 21st January 2016

SBS Online releases new Support Salary Scales for 2016 & 2017

A number of our customers have been requesting we look into the pending April Support salary scales. Although yet to be finalised we understand you need to get to grips with your budget as soon as p...

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Setting a new budget?
Financial Planning

Posted on 6th January 2016

Setting a new budget?

We have received a few calls from customers asking to be reminded about how they go about setting up a new budget for the new year. Remember you can create a new budget for the new year whilst still ...

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SBS Online update! KPIs & Analysis Tags
Financial Planning

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...

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