Blogs & Updates
SIMS User Permissions Audit
February 22 2016
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...
February Blues
February 22 2016
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...
Childcare Question and Validation Rule 2950
January 29 2016
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...
DfE FSM Ever 6 at Spring Census 2016
January 27 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...
Daily Echo School Awards 2016
January 27 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 ...
Census - new fileset 226
January 18 2016
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 ...
Census - new fileset223
January 11 2016
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...
SBS Online Update: Theme Selector and Other Improvements
December 17 2015
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 ...
Meet the team
December 10 2015
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; ...
Progress 8 data within the SIMS School Report
December 07 2015
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 ...
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