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Posted on 14th December 2016
Workplace issues this Christmas
Workplace issues this Christmas With Christmas just round the corner employers need to prepare for some familiar workplace issues, whether its unauthorised absence over the Christmas period or bad ...
Posted on 13th December 2016
Nearly Xmas - But Some Important Work Still To Do!
Many schools and academies are now in their final week before the Christmas break. But there are still important tasks to complete. Key Deadlines for Academies As we get to the end of the autumn te...
Posted on 9th December 2016
Spring 2017 Census
Our step by step Census documentation is available now so that you can get ahead and start preparing for Spring Census day which is on Thursday 19th January. Preparing for the Spring Census ...
Posted on 8th December 2016
Reduce Paper Records and Improve Efficiency
Back in the Summer, we published a blog about the new Direct Scan Solution from Brother. Please note this product is currently unavailable from our Procurement service and this blog is now for refer...
Posted on 7th December 2016
Updated KS4 Resources including Scatter Graphs
New Version of CAS Key Groups Inspection Dashboard Report This report has now been updated to include the 2016 National figures which have just been published. When imported, the updated report wil...
Posted on 5th December 2016
School servers targeted by hackers
It has been brought to our attention that hackers are targeting school servers What has been happening? The following unusual activity has been reported at a number of schools: Server drive permiss...
Posted on 2nd December 2016
SIMS for Safeguarding
With Ofsted placing greater emphasis on safeguarding than ever before, it is essential that staff in schools are aware of their responsibilities and have confidence in the monitoring systems that are...
Posted on 30th November 2016
A Guide to the Apprenticeship Levy
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...
Posted on 22nd November 2016
On The Horizon
With the first named storm of the year having rolled across the horizon, in this week’s blog we look at a number of issues set to impact on schools. Future School Funding The National Union of Te...
Posted on 14th November 2016
SIMS Training Courses in 2017
Dates for our 2017 SIMS courses are available to view now on our SIMS Training page. As well as some of the ever-popular, regular SIMS training courses you will also find some new courses on offer: ...
Posted on 11th November 2016
Online Monitoring and Schools' Safeguarding Responsibility
As of the 5th September, solely using web filters to protect students from harmful content is no longer sufficient and schools are expected to be more proactive in monitoring online activity. An inc...
Posted on 10th November 2016
Personal Tax Account
Don’t have the time to call HMRC and wait on hold for what feels like forever to check your tax code or inform them of a change of address? HMRC have now created the personal tax account service ...