Blogs & Updates

July Shorts
  July 18 2017
July Shorts There have been a number of announcements these last few weeks – so here is your one stop source to all the information you need. Pupil Premium Detailed school and local authority lev...
Tempus Fugit
  July 01 2016
Time Flies! Its July already and time to dust off the trophies for sports day, get out the tombolas for the summer fete and say good bye to staff leaving at the end of term. There will be transition...
One Stop For Latest Finance News
  July 06 2015
A new place for the latest news. Regular readers of the SBS Finance Blog will have noticed that the blog is now available within the main School Business Services website. We will continue to provide ...
May the Fourth Be With You!
  May 04 2015
This blog is being published on ‘Star Wars Day’. In a few days’ time our opinion will be sought on which empire returns to No. 10 and whether the new government will be a clone of the last. But ...
Happy birthday SBS blog!
  March 24 2015
This is  the 30th blog we have published – the first being on 21 March 2014. So happy birthday blog. We hope that you have found the contents over the year useful – and of course we welcome any f...
October Returns
  October 19 2014
October is not normally a month for Returns, but there are two returns that new Academies and Free Schools are likely to have to complete in the next few weeks. Also the EFA advise that a significant ...
Tour De Force - Managing Finances
  July 11 2014
A short blog this week. With the Tour de France passing through my home town – yes I’m based in sunny Yorkshire! – there has not been too much time for blogging. As the title to this blog sugge...
Hello July
  June 30 2014
I am disappointed that my week away lasted longer than England’s world cup campaign. And like those England supporters who were expecting to manage their cash over several weeks, changes to the timi...
Flaming June
  June 02 2014
For some the half term break will have provided time to re-charge the batteries before the final sprint finish to the end of the school year - I hope you were one of these. For academies this is also ...