Blogs & Updates
A Guide to the Apprenticeship Levy
November 30 2016
The Apprenticeship Levy is a new government initiative announced in the 2015 Summer Budget that will come into force from April 2017.
It is in effect a payroll tax that will apply to large organisati...
On The Horizon
November 22 2016
With the first named storm of the year having rolled across the horizon, in this week’s blog we look at a number of issues set to impact on schools.
Future School Funding
The National Union of Te...
SIMS Training Courses in 2017
November 14 2016
Dates for our 2017 SIMS courses are available to view now on our SIMS Training page.
As well as some of the ever-popular, regular SIMS training courses you will also find some new courses on offer:
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Online Monitoring and Schools' Safeguarding Responsibility
November 11 2016
As of the 5th September, solely using web filters to protect students from harmful content is no longer sufficient and schools are expected to be more proactive in monitoring online activity.
An inc...
Personal Tax Account
November 10 2016
Don’t have the time to call HMRC and wait on hold for what feels like forever to check your tax code or inform them of a change of address?
HMRC have now created the personal tax account service ...
The SIMS Autumn Release is available now
November 09 2016
If you are a school for whom we run the upgrade, we will be contacting you to arrange a convenient date.
Important Information regarding this release
School Census – this release will remove the A...
Important changes to Microsoft UK licensing
November 08 2016
From 2017, Microsoft will increase the pricing of all UK licences
Why the increase and how much is it?
To keep their British pricing in line with European Union pricing, Microsoft has announced a ...
Governance and Financial Healthchecks
November 04 2016
Academy Accounting Officers will have received a letter from the CEO of the Education Funding Agency, Peter Lauener, reminding them of the principles that those holding public office should adhere to...
Children Missing Education - New statutory guidance from the DfE
November 03 2016
On 1st September 2016, new statutory procedures were introduced by the DfE with regard to Children Missing Education.
The DfE Children Missing Education statutory guidance document states that:
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SBS Online – November Update
November 03 2016
The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to parent planners of Multi-school trusts, new rounding options and a new set of tooltips on parent planners.
Trust Schools
In the 'Multi-sc...
Finance