Blogs & Updates

New Academy Chart of Accounts 2019
  June 27 2019
We have since released an update for SBS Online customers → The Government have released a new standardised Academy Chart of Accounts. The standardised Academy Chart of Accounts is for Budget C...
Important: Spam emails
  June 24 2019
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Update to school Funding Predictor in SBS Online
  May 03 2019
We have released a new and improved version of the school Funding Predictor. The new school Funding Predictor allows you to add Free Type lines to cater for more areas of funding. Any Free Type line...
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...
DfE to fund Teacher Pension increase
  April 11 2019
The government has announced that the Teacher Pension employer contributions increase will be funded. One item that has been concerning schools is whether the approaching employers teacher pension i...
NJC Support Scales Migration April '19
  April 09 2019
SBS Online are offering two migration scripts for users to implement the new NJC Support Scales structure. The details of these migrations and how they would affect your budget have been emailed to...
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
  March 07 2019
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...
Update following Teachers' Pension Scheme valuation
  February 28 2019
As a result of the current valuation of the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, the Government has determined that the employer contribution rate should increase to 23.68%. This change takes effect from 1 ...
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
  February 21 2019
As the financial year approaches one thing on everyone’s mind is creating their School Budget for next year. We have been thinking about ways we can make creating your 2019/20 Budget easier for yo...
Email security update for schools
  February 07 2019
It has been brought to our attention that we have had a couple of instances where a rule has been set up within Microsoft Outlook email client to forward all emails to a different email address. We...