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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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February Training Courses

Posted on 1st September 2023

February Training Courses

Take a look at what we have got coming up in February Our training courses are ideal for maximising the use of your system, training your team or to prepare you for a new role in a school.

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SIMS Guidance - Free School Meals for London Primary Schools from Sept 1st
MIS

Posted on 25th August 2023

SIMS Guidance - Free School Meals for London Primary Schools from Sept 1st

From 1st September 2023 pupils in London schools in Years 3,4,5 and 6 will receive free Mayor Meals.  You will need to make some changes in SIMS to differentiate between the different Pupil meals categories. 

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Arbor Guidance - Free School Meals for London Primary Schools from Sept 1st
MIS

Posted on 25th August 2023

Arbor Guidance - Free School Meals for London Primary Schools from Sept 1st

As the Mayor of London has offered free meals to all pupils in years Reception-Year 6, if you use Arbor for Meals you’ll need to make adjustments to your Meals set up.

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6 ways to enhance your IRIS Financials
Finance

Posted on 3rd August 2023

6 ways to enhance your IRIS Financials

Have you considered these areas and how they could benefit staff, finance & accounting best practice and data integrity?

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Upgrade from Pay360 to IRIS PlusPay: Simplify and Enhance Your Online School Payments
MIS

Posted on 14th July 2023

Upgrade from Pay360 to IRIS PlusPay: Simplify and Enhance Your Online School Payments

Following on from our previous update regarding the discontinuation of the Pay360 Education Payments service from 31st July 2023 our partners IRIS have provided some information on their alternative solution IRIS PlusPay.

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Power problems affecting LGfL
ICT

Posted on 10th July 2023

Power problems affecting LGfL

Please note that there are power problems affecting one of LGfL's Datacentres today (Monday 10th July)

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Latest ESFA Updates: Academy Trust Handbook & Trust Quality Descriptions
Finance

Posted on 7th July 2023

Latest ESFA Updates: Academy Trust Handbook & Trust Quality Descriptions

As you will no doubt be aware, yesterday (6th July 2023) the ESFA published the latest Academy Trust Handbook (ATH).

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SIMS End of Year Procedures for 2023
MIS

Posted on 3rd July 2023

SIMS End of Year Procedures for 2023

Here are the links for the primary and secondary End of Year user guides for ESS SIMS and information about our support for the procedures.

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Bromcom End of Year Setup 2023
MIS

Posted on 3rd July 2023

Bromcom End of Year Setup 2023

Here are the links for the primary and secondary user guides for Bromcom.

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Arbor New School Year Setup 2023
MIS

Posted on 3rd July 2023

Arbor New School Year Setup 2023

This blog covers Arbor New School Year Setup for 2023

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Cyber Security Guidance for School Staff
ICT

Posted on 3rd July 2023

Cyber Security Guidance for School Staff

Our ICT team has put together useful, timely cyber security guidance for school staff.

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Key Stage Statutory Collections
MIS

Posted on 18th May 2023

Key Stage Statutory Collections

As part of our support for schools, please find the latest DfE guidance for Key Stage statutory arrangements for 2023.

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