Posted on 27th October 2017
School Workforce Census Autumn 2017
With November rapidly approaching and the half term break finishing it’s time to start looking forward to the School Workforce Census Autumn 2017. Here you are going to find the how to guides, and...
Posted on 16th October 2017
Exams Officer training delivered by Paula Wood
Introducing Paula Wood - Senior MIS Consultant We are excited to announce that Paula Wood has recently joined the SBS MIS team. Paula has an outstanding national reputation amongst Examinations Of...
Posted on 2nd October 2017
Are robots the future of customer service?
Customer satisfaction and optimising the customer experience should be at the top of the agenda for any business and SBS is no exception. Although this week is Customer Service Week we aim for great ...
Posted on 29th September 2017
Autumn Census 2017 - Fileset 704
A new Fileset (704) has been made available by Capita for the Autumn Census. Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please ensure that you have had your Summer upgrade and are on SIMS 7.176 before you...
Posted on 19th September 2017
SIMS Autumn Census guidance
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 5th October 2017 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
Posted on 8th September 2017
Your updated Pupil Premium 2017/18
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 down...
Posted on 4th August 2017
Summer Reading
July is often the month that the ESFA publishes its summer blockbusters, so that business managers in schools and academies have some essential reading for their beach holidays. Our top five reads fo...
Posted on 14th July 2017
SBS Online Update - In-Year Balances plus more
The latest SBS Online update contains a new in-year row balance for several reports, maximum scales for teacher contracts, and improvements to Excel exports and other commitments in the Budget Monito...
Posted on 9th June 2017
New Profile Report & Other Improvements
The latest update to SBS Online contains a new Profile Report with a Multi-School version, a Budget Upload and a range of improvements and bug fixes. Profile Report The new Profile Report can be fou...
Posted on 15th May 2017
Advice for schools on the Ransomware crisis
Following the recent NHS Ransomware crisis, as well as many other organisations being impacted, we feel it is important to send out an update on this subject. As covered in our previous blogs, ther...
Posted on 28th April 2017
SIMS Summer Census guidance
The SIMS Summer Census will be on Thursday 18th May 2017 Our phase-specific documentation will take you step by step through the preparation and production of the Census return. Preparing for th...
Posted on 25th April 2017
The DfE, SARA and what it means for academies
In this blog we look a little deeper into why academies are required to complete additional returns, and catch up on other news from the EFA and TPS. Sector Annual Report & Accounts (SARA) As P...