School Budgeting Monthly Roundup - March
It’s been an exciting month in the world of school and MAT budgeting, so let's summarise the headlines.
Like every year, March has brought us 1 clock change, 2 UK patron saints days and for motorsport fans, 20 'new-look' cars for a brand new F1 season. In 2022, it’s been a significantly busy and exciting month for the SBS Online team. Here’s some of our news you might have missed or would like to see again in full.
1. We kicked off this month with a kind reminder of the SBS Budgets integrated systems (Arbor & IRIS) - read more >
2. We next had the NJC Scales for April 2021 confirmed – a 1.75% increase for all Support Staff, with the lowest scale receiving 2.75% - read more >
3. With this, the government also announced the Provisional Teacher Scales for 2022 and 2023, which has been designed to increase Teachers starting salary to be £30,000 in 2023 - read more >
4. SBS Budgets Spring update – It was a big month for budgeting enhancements, with new features being released to customers. Our summary blog rounds up all the details, and the three headlines were:
- New budgeting functionality for MATs - Learn about the time savings >
- SBS Budgets now integrates with ESS SIMS - How it works >
- Master school budgeting at your convenience - Check out SBS Assist >
Budgeting top tip of the month
"You can use the Budget Overview under the 'Reporting module' to review which scales you currently have on your Budget, to ensure these are up to date."
'On this day in SBS Budgets history'
An example of the ongoing improvements we make to the software, in March 2018 we blogged about the introduction of tabs to the search function to save users time and provide clarity when viewing search results. Note, users can influence the future of SBS Budgets by feeding back to us anytime.Flexibility, Connectivity, Visibility...
...that's what our product delivers for schools and trusts. If you have any questions about how SBS Budgets could help with your financial planning workload please feel free to contact our team on sbsonline@schoolbusinessservices.co.uk and 0345 222 1551 | Opt 8.
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