Blogs & Updates

Autumn School Census 2018
  October 29 2018

MIS

We are sharing the following information that has been released from the DfE. Update No 2 from the DfE Purpose The purpose of this note is to provide school census contacts with an update on th...
School Workforce Census Autumn 2018
  October 16 2018

MIS

With November rapidly approaching and the half term break just around the corner it’s time to start looking forward to the School Workforce Census Autumn 2018. Here you are going to find the how to...
Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
  October 10 2018

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Data Managers Forum - Primary and Secondary School sessions Did you know about our termly Data Managers Forums? These sessions are a great way of networking and being able to speak to other schools t...
Census Consolidated Patch v2
  October 01 2018

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There is now a Census Consolidated Patch v2 for Summer Release 2018 (patch 24330) is necessary to correct the issue in the SIMS application for schools receiving error 1992 when running School Census...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018
  September 21 2018

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The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 4th October 2018 With October coming around fast it’s time again for that joyous thing that is the October School Census. To help with carrying it out we
Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
  September 21 2018

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As many of you are no doubt aware, your Pupil Premium ‘ticks’ will not have carried over from last year and so will need to be re-entered. Thankfully to make our lives a little easier, you can ...
Guest blog: A new dawn for schools?
  August 14 2018
A new dawn for schools? Guest post from Julie Cordiner, School Financial Success Changes in the air Listening to the experiences, views and concerns of headteachers, SBLs, governors and other spea...
Urgent and Important – Exams PI Report Problem
  August 13 2018

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Exams PI Report Problem It has been found that the fileset 1001 causes a problem for one of the reports in the Exams PI and it has therefore been withdrawn. The existence of this fileset may be unkno...
News round-up from the SBS Capita-accredited SIMS team
  July 25 2018

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SBS MIS support team achieves Capita SIMS accreditation for the third time! Our accreditation visit, led by Capita's Professional Services team, took place during the SBS Company Developmen...
Your SIMS Summer Upgrade is here! (7.182)
  July 12 2018

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The Change Request Release! The new upgrade is out and available now and comes with a vast array of little changes that have been made based on customer feedback through Capita’s Change Request sys...