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At School Business Services, we’ve reviewed the government's full Spending Review 2025 and pulled together the key takeaways and what they mean for your budget planning over the next few years.

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Enhanced Budget Monitoring Tools at your disposal
Financial Planning

Posted on 29th October 2018

Enhanced Budget Monitoring Tools at your disposal

Our latest release allows you to increase the range of assumptions made, whilst deriving a Projected Year End position that you most understand. Until now the Budget Monitor has only used a one optio...

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Autumn School Census 2018
MIS

Posted on 29th October 2018

Autumn School Census 2018

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...

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School Workforce Census Autumn 2018
MIS

Posted on 16th October 2018

School Workforce Census Autumn 2018

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...

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Inspection, SIMS and the Single Central Record
MIS

Posted on 11th October 2018

Inspection, SIMS and the Single Central Record

The guidance paper shown has been created by ASCL and Capita/SIMS and we felt this should be shared with our schools. Download paper! → This paper is relevant to school and college leaders in En...

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Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
MIS

Posted on 10th October 2018

Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available

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...

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Census Consolidated Patch v2
MIS

Posted on 1st October 2018

Census Consolidated Patch v2

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...

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Are you experiencing issues with your Agora program?
MIS

Posted on 1st October 2018

Are you experiencing issues with your Agora program?

We recently received this Capita document which can provide information to help with this Agora issue. Download now! ➝ If you would like any further information, please email misservicedesk@...

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SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018
MIS

Posted on 21st September 2018

SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018

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

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New Teacher Pay Scales
Financial Planning

Posted on 21st September 2018

New Teacher Pay Scales

We have updated our pay scales to the official amounts announced. The majority of the new teacher pay scales matched our predictions, the main differences were on the Unqualified scales. These inclu...

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Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
MIS

Posted on 21st September 2018

Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19

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 ...

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Funding Predictor and other updates
Financial Planning

Posted on 11th September 2018

Funding Predictor and other updates

We have introduced a new version of our Funding Predictor in SBS Online. The new version Funding Predictor allows our schools who have FSM plus FSM6 to input both of these values. We have also update...

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MIS Service Desk high volume of calls
MIS

Posted on 6th September 2018

MIS Service Desk high volume of calls

The MIS Service Desk is experiencing an exceptionally high volume of calls this week and we would please ask that you bear with us as we will deal with things in a priority order. We do understand t...

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