Blogs & Updates
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SIMS School Workforce Census
October 19 2021
With the School Workforce Census fast approaching SBS is here to help you through it.
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SIMS Autumn Census 2021 guidance
September 21 2021
Here’s your SIMS update on the latest guidance for the Autumn Term 2021 School Census.
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Arbor Autumn Census 2021 guidance
September 21 2021
Thursday 7th October 2021 is census day but for all you eager beavers you can carry out a dry run in Arbor from Thursday 23rd September 2021.
The SIMS Summer Upgrade is now available!
July 27 2020
SIMS Version 7.194 has been released, get your upgrade here.
The final upgrade of this academic year is within reach. Our team are now booking in and carrying out the SIMS summer upgrades for our s...
School census 2018 to 2019
January 09 2019
Please note: It's been brought to our attention that a previous blog regarding the School census 2018-2019 has encountered some technical issues, so this is a repaet blog post.
The DfE has decide...
School census 2018 to 2019
December 04 2018
The DfE has decided that there is no longer a requirement to collect three items in future census’s and these are Proficiency in English, Pupil Country of Birth and Pupil Nationality.
Therefore un...
SIMS Summer Release
June 29 2017
The SIMS Summer Release is due for release on Friday 30th June 2017 and includes several enhancements and new areas of functionality
New features and updates include the introduction of EYFS in th...
SIMS Summer Census guidance
April 28 2017
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...
SIMS Spring Release 2017
March 06 2017
The next SIMS update is due for release on Friday 10th March 2017.
If we usually run the upgrade for you, please contact our MIS Service Desk on 0345 222 1551 • Option 3 as soon as possible so tha...
Spring Census 2017 - Issues with COLLECT upload
January 19 2017
This post is for all schools and academies who upload their Census files straight to COLLECT.
We have been made aware of an issue whereby some authorised files are not uploading and COLLECT is genera...
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