Blogs & Updates

SBS Budgets software update: MAT Budget by School Report
  April 27 2023
MAT Budget by School Report has now been added to our Multi-School reporting suite.
Primary Statutory Key Stage Analysis Resources
  September 06 2022

MIS

SIMS resources to enable schools to calculate and instantly analyse all Primary Statutory assessment result headline measures Phonics Year 1 and 2, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
Report the impact of COVID-19 on your budget in 7 easy steps
  June 25 2021
SBS Budgets enables you to create a bespoke analysis tag for COVID-19, in order to plan for COVID-related expenses.
New Power BI Course
  March 03 2021
SBS has created a 3 part webinar to help provide you with the skills for using Power BI and how it links to SIMS. 
SIMS Standard Reporting Webinar
  December 01 2020
SBS has created a 90 minute webinar to help provide you with the skills to create, run and edit reports in SIMS We have created a page on our website providing more details, and the training will b...
New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS
  June 03 2020

MIS

Reporting on I, X, and Y just got easier with new attendance reports from SBS. Following on from the latest guidance from the DfE, Schools should resume taking the attendance register when more grou...
CFR Framework Changes
  April 15 2019
There has been two changes to the CFR Framework for the financial year 2019/20. The Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) framework provides a standard template for all maintained schools to collec...
Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
  February 07 2017

MIS

Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16. These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...
Gender pay gap reporting webinar
  January 13 2017
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...
SIMS for Safeguarding
  December 02 2016

MIS

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...