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Posted on 8th March 2016
Consultation - National Funding Formula
In the Autumn Statement the chancellor advised that there would be a consultation programme looking at a National Funding Formula for schools and academies. The Department for Education announced on...
Posted on 23rd February 2016
SIMS accreditation
MIS support team achieves Capita SIMS accreditation for the second time Following a thorough assessment of our high quality service, and participation from our valued schools, the SIMS support team a...
Posted on 22nd February 2016
SIMS User Permissions Audit
As part of our continuing improvement for our SIMS Service and adding value for our customers, we are providing an audit service for SIMS users and permissions. Over the next couple of weeks we w...
Posted on 22nd February 2016
February Blues
It's a strange February this year - half term came much earlier. There's lots to do but so few days in the month. As we prepare to leap into the last month of the fiscal year we look at where you mi...
Posted on 29th January 2016
Childcare Question and Validation Rule 2950
Please note that the DfE has recently added validation rule 2950 to its COLLECT validation. This validation checks that the childcare questions are answered for all four types of childcare. This vali...
Posted on 27th January 2016
DfE FSM Ever 6 at Spring Census 2016
Capita/SIMS have produced a new SIMS report file for the DfE Free School Meals Ever 6 looking at the data within the Spring Census 2016. This report can be downloaded and then needs to be saved somew...
Posted on 27th January 2016
Daily Echo School Awards 2016
School Business Services (SBS) is thrilled to announce that we are co-sponsoring the Daily Echo School Awards 2016, created to celebrate excellence in Dorset schools. Parents, pupils and family ...
Posted on 18th January 2016
Census - new fileset 226
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please note that a new Fileset 226 has been released by Capita ready for your School Census. This new fileset solves a variety of validation errors and contains the ...
Posted on 11th January 2016
Census - new fileset223
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please note that a new Fileset223 has been released by Capita ready for your School Census. Please check that you have had your SIMS upgrade and are on SIMS version...
Posted on 17th December 2015
SBS Online Update: Theme Selector and Other Improvements
Our new SBS Online update contains several improvements, plus some bug fixes. Theme selector Choose how your SBS Online planner looks by selecting a different theme. By default, one of the new themes ...
Posted on 10th December 2015
Meet the team
We would like to introduce some of our new members of the team who have joined this year. Ricky Barton Finance Consultant I joined School Business Services in 2015 as a Finance Consultant; ...
Posted on 7th December 2015
Progress 8 data within the SIMS School Report
We have seen this recent video from Capita regarding Progress 8 and thought it may be of interest to our readers because of how you can now view the Progress 8 data within the SIMS School Report and ...