Blogs & Updates
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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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Workplace issues this Christmas
December 14 2016
Workplace issues this Christmas
With Christmas just round the corner employers need to prepare for some familiar workplace issues, whether its unauthorised absence over the Christmas period or bad ...
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Nearly Xmas - But Some Important Work Still To Do!
December 13 2016
Many schools and academies are now in their final week before the Christmas break. But there are still important tasks to complete.
Key Deadlines for Academies
As we get to the end of the autumn te...
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Spring 2017 Census
December 09 2016
Our step by step Census documentation is available now so that you can get ahead and start preparing for Spring Census day which is on Thursday 19th January.
Preparing for the Spring Census ...
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Reduce Paper Records and Improve Efficiency
December 08 2016
Back in the Summer, we published a blog about the new Direct Scan Solution from Brother.
Please note this product is currently unavailable from our Procurement service and this blog is now for refer...
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Updated KS4 Resources including Scatter Graphs
December 07 2016
New Version of CAS Key Groups Inspection Dashboard Report
This report has now been updated to include the 2016 National figures which have just been published.
When imported, the updated report wil...
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