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Posted on 29th January 2016
Childcare Question and Validation Rule 2950
Please note that the DfE has recently added validation rule 2950 to its COLLECT validation. This validation checks that the childcare questions are answered for all four types of childcare. This vali...
Posted on 27th January 2016
Piloting Our Way Through January
The warmest winter on record so far in some parts of the country. And in schools and academies everywhere the pace is hotting up – accounting returns to be made and budgets for 2016/17 to be prepar...
Posted on 27th January 2016
DfE FSM Ever 6 at Spring Census 2016
Capita/SIMS have produced a new SIMS report file for the DfE Free School Meals Ever 6 looking at the data within the Spring Census 2016. This report can be downloaded and then needs to be saved somew...
Posted on 27th January 2016
Daily Echo School Awards 2016
School Business Services (SBS) is thrilled to announce that we are co-sponsoring the Daily Echo School Awards 2016, created to celebrate excellence in Dorset schools. Parents, pupils and family ...
Posted on 25th January 2016
National Insurance 2016/17 – We got it spot on!
We are delighted to announce that SBS Online has been projecting 2016/17 employer contributions for National Insurance correctly since February 2015. The government has announced the new thresholds a...
Posted on 21st January 2016
National Insurance Rates 2016/2017
The new National Insurance table is now available and needs to be entered in to SIMS Personnel. The following table displays the new rates: Band Upper Monthly Earnings Limit Lower Monthly Earnin...
Posted on 21st January 2016
Additional pre-appointment checks on teachers
Since 18th January, where any European Economic Area (EEA) authority that has responsibility for regulating the teaching profession imposes a restriction on a person’s ability to work as a teacher,...
Posted on 21st January 2016
SBS Online releases new Support Salary Scales for 2016 & 2017
A number of our customers have been requesting we look into the pending April Support salary scales. Although yet to be finalised we understand you need to get to grips with your budget as soon as p...
Posted on 18th January 2016
Census - new fileset 226
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please note that a new Fileset 226 has been released by Capita ready for your School Census. This new fileset solves a variety of validation errors and contains the ...
Posted on 18th January 2016
Assessment - Track pupils progress whatever method you choose
Capita have published a new document for assessment which we feel would be useful for our schools. Assessment should support teaching and learning and be driven by your school’s own assessment po...
Posted on 17th January 2016
New SBS address and phone number
After an extremely successful few years, we are delighted to announce we are moving our head office to accommodate our continued and future growth. The new facilities offer a large conference suite, ...
Posted on 11th January 2016
Census - new fileset223
Downloading and Applying a Fileset Please note that a new Fileset223 has been released by Capita ready for your School Census. Please check that you have had your SIMS upgrade and are on SIMS version...