Blogs & Updates
Academies Accounts Return
January 16 2017
Academies having submitted their Annual Report and Accounts to the EFA by the 31 December 2016, will be aware that they must now submit their Academies Accounts Return by 31 January 2017.
The EFA ha...
Gender pay gap reporting webinar
January 13 2017
Gender pay gap reporting webinar
We uncovered a useful webinar on gender pay gap reporting by XpertHR which might be of interest to a number of academies and independent schools. The aim of the webi...
New Update and Happy New Year!
January 13 2017
Happy New Year to all of our customers and best wishes for 2017!
The latest SBS Online update contains improvements to Staff Contracts, National Insurance calculations, multi-school KPIs, the default...
Tidy up time
January 12 2017
Although Census time allows schools to update a lot of information held in SIMS, the same old data issues often persist (contacts not showing correctly, no little houses, names in upper and lower ca...
Ransomware latest - Schools targetted by fraudulent calls
January 10 2017
According to the police, "fraudsters are posing as government officials in order to trick people into installing ransomware which encrypts files on victims’ computers."
Further to our previous adv...
Cost pressures for schools and new Funding Formula
January 09 2017
In the last few days of the Autumn term two key announcements were made on school funding.
The first was a report from the National Audit Office (NAO) on how prepared schools and academies were in re...
Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017
January 06 2017
Statutory maternity and sick pay rates for 2017/18
The government has recently announced the changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2017. This includes adoption, paternity and shared p...
Spring Census - Fileset 502
January 03 2017
A new Fileset (502) has been made available by Capita for the Spring Census.
It contains updates to both the summary report and validation files.
Downloading and Applying a Fileset
Please check tha...
Latest advice for schools on ransomware
December 19 2016
Ransomware is an aggressive form of computer virus that targets your server, encrypts files and then demands a ransom for their release.
The technology driving ransomware - such as the CryptoLocker ...
Consolidated Exams patch available
December 15 2016
Capita have now released a consolidated exams patch (22509) which adds the newly identified discount codes TA1, TA2 and TA3 as well as correcting JCQ Gradeset 43 and fixing basedata issues previous...
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