Blogs & Updates

How the UK Budget 2025-26 Will Impact Schools and Education
  November 12 2024
Discover how the UK Budget 2025-26 impacts schools in England and Wales. Get the full breakdown for school leaders on budget changes and funding allocations.
Academy Year-End Preparation
  July 12 2024
Academy Year-End Preparation, a checklist and general advice to school staff
Academies chart of accounts 2024-25 update
  June 18 2024
The ESFA have today published the Academies Chart of Accounts for 2024-25
Changes to CFR coding 24/25
  May 17 2024
ICT and Technology CFR changes 2024 / 2025
Make sure you don’t under-forecast backdated pay awards
  December 14 2021
We all know that pay awards never go through on the dates you expect them to/budget for.
Now open for submissions! Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO) and BFR3Year return
  June 22 2021
Academy trusts are required to submit their Budget Forecast Return Outturn (BFRO) to the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA).
April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales update
  March 07 2019
This blog demonstrates how SBS Online users can apply the April 2019 Support Staff Pay Scales migration to their Custom Scales. With the complete restructure of Support Scales that’s taking place...
Creating your Budget for the Next School Financial Year
  February 21 2019
As the financial year approaches one thing on everyone’s mind is creating their School Budget for next year. We have been thinking about ways we can make creating your 2019/20 Budget easier for yo...
Sage, Profile Monitor and other Updates
  December 13 2018
We have worked with Sage to produce a report template you can upload into your Excel Reports within Sage. This report will allow you to easily generate a Budget Monitor to import into SBS Online at j...
Changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2018
  November 30 2017
Statutory maternity and sick pay rates for 2018/19 The government has recently announced the changes to statutory maternity and sick pay rates in 2018. This includes maternity, adoption, paternity a...