Blogs & Updates
School Workforce Census Autumn 2017
October 27 2017
With November rapidly approaching and the half term break finishing it’s time to start looking forward to the School Workforce Census Autumn 2017.
Here you are going to find the how to guides, and...
Exams Officer training delivered by Paula Wood
October 16 2017
Introducing Paula Wood - Senior MIS Consultant
We are excited to announce that Paula Wood has recently joined the SBS MIS team. Paula has an outstanding national reputation amongst Examinations Of...
Importing Updated Exams Results
October 04 2017
At this time of the year you may be getting in some updated results and wondering how to get these into SIMS and Exams Organiser.
To add a new result that was not imported through a result file you...
Are robots the future of customer service?
October 02 2017
Customer satisfaction and optimising the customer experience should be at the top of the agenda for any business and SBS is no exception. Although this week is Customer Service Week we aim for great ...
Autumn Census 2017 - Fileset 704
September 29 2017
A new Fileset (704) has been made available by Capita for the Autumn Census.
Downloading and Applying a Fileset
Please ensure that you have had your Summer upgrade and are on SIMS 7.176 before you...
SIMS Autumn Census guidance
September 19 2017
The SIMS Autumn Census will be on Thursday 5th October 2017
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
Your updated Pupil Premium 2017/18
September 08 2017
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 down...
School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2017
August 16 2017
Changes to the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document 2017
The new School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2017 has now been published by the Department for Education (DfE).
The ma...
Summer Reading
August 04 2017
July is often the month that the ESFA publishes its summer blockbusters, so that business managers in schools and academies have some essential reading for their beach holidays.
Our top five reads fo...
Supreme Court decides that employment tribunal fees system is unlawful
July 28 2017
Changes to employment tribunal fees
In July 2013 the Government introduced the Employment Tribunals and Employment Appeal Tribunal Fees Order 2013, which required all individuals to pay a fee to bri...
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