Posted on 3rd February 2017
Top tips to keep children safe online
To keep children safe online, it is important that schools acknowledge the key areas of action, promote engagement and awareness and involve the different responsible parties: eSafety learning - As...
Posted on 30th January 2017
SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations
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...
Posted on 30th January 2017
January Update
As academies struggled to submit their AAR by the January deadline here is some news you may have missed. Academy Accounts Return As extensively reported, Peter Lauener has written to all academies p...
Posted on 27th January 2017
Progress 8 and Attainment 8
Progress 8 and Attainment 8 are hot topics right now. Last Thursday, when most schools and academies were running their Census, the DfE published the national performance tables for Key Stages 4 and ...
Posted on 20th January 2017
Spring Census 2017 - COLLECT issue resolved
Further to our blog post yesterday afternoon we can confirm that the DfE have fixed the issue affecting Census file uploads to COLLECT. Please contact us if you require any assistance with your Sp...
Posted on 19th January 2017
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT. We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
Posted on 17th January 2017
CES (Catholic Education Service) Census 2017
The CES Census 2017 is this Thursday (19th January) - the same date as the Spring Census for the DfE. The Catholic Education Service has many resources to support schools with this return includi...
Posted on 16th January 2017
Academies Accounts Return
Academies having submitted their Annual Report and Accounts to the EFA by the 31 December 2016, will be aware that they must now submit their Academies Accounts Return by 31 January 2017. The EFA ha...
Posted on 13th January 2017
Gender pay gap reporting webinar
Gender pay gap reporting webinar We uncovered a useful webinar on gender pay gap reporting by XpertHR which might be of interest to a number of academies and independent schools. The aim of the webi...
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 12th January 2017
Tidy up time
Although Census time allows schools to update a lot of information held in SIMS, the same old data issues often persist (contacts not showing correctly, no little houses, names in upper and lower ca...
Posted on 10th January 2017
Ransomware latest - Schools targetted by fraudulent calls
According to the police, "fraudsters are posing as government officials in order to trick people into installing ransomware which encrypts files on victims’ computers." Further to our previous adv...