Blogs & Updates

Inspection, SIMS and the Single Central Record
  October 11 2018

MIS

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...
Next Data Managers Forum - 7/11/18 - limited places available
  October 10 2018

MIS

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

MIS

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...
Are you experiencing issues with your Agora program?
  October 01 2018

MIS

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@...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance 2018
  September 21 2018

MIS

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
New Teacher Pay Scales
  September 21 2018
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...
Your updated Pupil Premium 2018/19
  September 21 2018

MIS

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 ...
Funding Predictor and other updates
  September 11 2018
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...
MIS Service Desk high volume of calls
  September 06 2018

MIS

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...
Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2018
  August 29 2018
We have implemented new Teachers' Pay Scales for 2018/19 in SBS Online. The new scales are STC (subject to confirmation) while we wait for official news about the rates in Inner London, Outer Londo...