SBS Budgets software update: MAT Budget by School Report
Financial Planning

Posted on 27th April 2023

SBS Budgets software update: MAT Budget by School Report

MAT Budget by School Report has now been added to our Multi-School reporting suite.

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Primary Statutory Key Stage Analysis Resources
MIS

Posted on 6th September 2022

Primary Statutory Key Stage Analysis Resources

SIMS resources to enable schools to calculate and instantly analyse all Primary Statutory assessment result headline measures Phonics Year 1 and 2, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

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Report the impact of COVID-19 on your budget in 7 easy steps
Financial Planning

Posted on 25th June 2021

Report the impact of COVID-19 on your budget in 7 easy steps

SBS Budgets enables you to create a bespoke analysis tag for COVID-19, in order to plan for COVID-related expenses.

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New Power BI Course
Webinars

Posted on 3rd March 2021

New Power BI Course

SBS has created a 3 part webinar to help provide you with the skills for using Power BI and how it links to SIMS. 

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SIMS Standard Reporting Webinar
MIS

Posted on 1st December 2020

SIMS Standard Reporting Webinar

SBS has created a 90 minute webinar to help provide you with the skills to create, run and edit reports in SIMS We have created a page on our website providing more details, and the training will b...

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New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS
MIS

Posted on 3rd June 2020

New Attendance Reports for SIMS from SBS

Reporting on I, X, and Y just got easier with new attendance reports from SBS. Following on from the latest guidance from the DfE, Schools should resume taking the attendance register when more grou...

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CFR Framework Changes
Financial Planning

Posted on 15th April 2019

CFR Framework Changes

There has been two changes to the CFR Framework for the financial year 2019/20. The Consistent Financial Reporting (CFR) framework provides a standard template for all maintained schools to collec...

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Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2
MIS

Posted on 7th February 2017

Statutory Analysis Reports for KS1 and KS2

Capita have recently updated their KS1 and KS2 analysis tools to incorporate the revised measures for 2015/16. These can be downloaded from the links further down the page (refer to the steps shown o...

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Gender pay gap reporting webinar

Posted on 13th January 2017

Gender pay gap reporting webinar

Gender pay gap reporting webinar We uncovered a useful webinar on gender pay gap reporting by XpertHR which might be of interest to a number of academies and independent schools. The aim of the webi...

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SIMS for Safeguarding
MIS

Posted on 2nd December 2016

SIMS for Safeguarding

With Ofsted placing greater emphasis on safeguarding than ever before, it is essential that staff in schools are aware of their responsibilities and have confidence in the monitoring systems that are...

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Children Missing Education - New statutory guidance from the DfE
MIS

Posted on 3rd November 2016

Children Missing Education - New statutory guidance from the DfE

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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SIMS Summer release is available now
MIS

Posted on 6th July 2016

SIMS Summer release is available now

The SIMS Summer Release is now available and includes several enhancements and new areas of functionality. We are currently contacting schools to book a time to carry out the upgrade remotely. Her...

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