Blogs & Updates

My Experience of leading a Product Development Project
  February 22 2024
I am Director of Operations and Digital at School Business Services, a company which provides education-specific professional services, including Finance, MIS, and ICT. We also provide Financial Planning Software – previously SBS Budgets, now SBS Financial Planner.
How one Multi Academy Trust’s investment in back office systems has improved attainment
  February 08 2024
School Business Services Managing Director Leyla Tovey meets Christopher Dryer, Director of Finance and Operations at St Bartholomew’s CE Multi Academy Trust in Wolverhampton.
“It’s so challenging now – people want consistency and stability…”
  January 26 2024
School Business Services Managing Director Leyla Tovey meets Kingfisher Learning Trust Chief Operating Officer Michael Unsworth.
SBS Coffee Club recordings: Single Academy Trusts (SATS) Series
  July 06 2022
Rewatch our series of SATs webinars at your leisure
We're speaking at The National MAT Conference 2022
  February 16 2022
We're speaking at The National MAT Conference 2022 with Premier Advisory Group
Announcing Arbor’s new Understanding Your MAT Report
  June 16 2020

MIS

This guest blog is an update from our partners Arbor Education, which is supported by our accredited MIS team. We are hosting a joint webinar on 8th July - free to attend! Announcing Arbor’s new U...
The Trust Capacity Fund
  April 06 2020
The Trust Capacity Fund (TCaF): A funding opportunity from the DfE to grow your school or Trust The next round of Trust Capacity Fund has been announced and will open to applicants on April 6th. ...
SBS Online is evolving to deliver more for all SBS customers
  October 31 2019
This Autumn Term term SBS Online is moving up a set! After 10-years maximising school budgets we felt SBS Online was ready to take on additional solutions for school business management. Previou...
New Academy Chart of Accounts 2019
  June 27 2019
We have since released an update for SBS Online customers → The Government have released a new standardised Academy Chart of Accounts. The standardised Academy Chart of Accounts is for Budget C...