Blogs & Updates

Now in force! How to budget for the Teachers Pay Awards
  November 08 2023
The Teachers Pay Award September 2023 has now come into force, as of Friday 3rd November. Here's 5 tips from our Finance & Accounting team.
Reforecasting the school budget - teachers pay & energy costs focus
  August 25 2022
This blog provides realistic reforecasting guidance for schools to react confidently when expenditure challenges arise, such as rising school energy costs and pay increases.
SBS Budgets update - Teacher starting salaries increase
  July 20 2022
Teachers across the country will benefit from pay increases of between 5% and 8.9% from September, as the government has now fully accepted pay recommendations from the independent School Teachers’ Review Body for the next academic year.
Some DfE updates to be aware of - additional funding for your school
  September 24 2021
We wanted to make our Finance & Accountancy blog subscribers aware of the new information available from .Gov.uk about additional funding for your school.
2020 Support and Teachers' Pay Scales
  September 30 2020
This blog refers to SBS Budgets, our budget management software accessed anywhere via SBS Online. The government have confirmed the Support and Teachers' Pay Awards for 2020. Support The Support...
Not using the national Teachers' Pay increases for 2019?
  September 30 2019
Using the National Scales? Please see our Teachers' Pay Scales 2019 blog. Teachers' Pay increases for 2019 have now been agreed, but is your academy or MAT following the national scales in your bud...
Teachers' Pay Scales 2019
  September 18 2019
The unions have released the Teachers' Pay Scales 2019. The NASUWT have uploaded the Main Teachers' Pay Scales and then separately Inner, Outer and Fringe London scales. As previously announced, t...
New Teacher Pay Scales
  September 21 2018
We have updated our pay scales to the official amounts announced. The majority of the new teacher pay scales matched our predictions, the main differences were on the Unqualified scales. These inclu...
Teachers' Pay Scales from September 2018
  August 29 2018
We have implemented new Teachers' Pay Scales for 2018/19 in SBS Online. The new scales are STC (subject to confirmation) while we wait for official news about the rates in Inner London, Outer Londo...
School Teachers' Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2017
  August 16 2017
Changes to the School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document 2017 The new School Teachers Pay and Conditions Document (STPCD) 2017 has now been published by the Department for Education (DfE). The ma...