Capita have now issued a PDF file with the latest National Insurance Rates for 2022/23. There is now a Capita patch available, number 26960, which will insert the National Insurance table 2022-23 on your behalf. If you have already created the table for 2022-23, the patch will overwrite the existing table. The patch adds an…
A school may need to update their Service Terms however this may involve a lot of work, if the school is in an academy/federation it may be a case that a school within this academy/federation can share the updated service terms to save time. For the school to be able to export Service Terms they…
Occasionally when reporting on Peronnel and Contracts within SIMS, it will display a closed contract for the member of staff. There is no specific option within the Reporting module to only make the open contracts show, you will need to filter the workaround as follows: Expand the ‘Employment Details‘ section and pick the blue ‘Contracts‘…
When it comes to the differences in the count, Personnel actually mainly considers staff Employment Date, which is different to the Contract Dates. For a teacher to show in the Personnel browse they must have the ‘Teaching Staff’ option ticked in their staff record and their Employment Date must be on or before the current…
Firstly the user will need to be given permissions within System Manager to the Staff Performance (SP) groups. Secondly go to Tools>Staff>Staff Performance>Line Management structure Check the date and click Go Highlight name to change and either right click or click on Action, choose Replace, choose the name of the replacement, OK then Save Reviewed…
This appears when the service term mapping cannot be found for the ledger code associated with the current reconciliation item in Personnel Links. Start in Personnel and make a note of the Service Term and Financial Sub Group for the relevant contract In FMS check the service term/ledger code mapping under: Focus > Personnel links…
This can happen if staff have been entered in Personnel and separately into Manage Classroom Staff resulting in two staff codes. Also (rarely) if they are in the student focus and that record hasn’t been used as the employee. Usually the issue manifests itself when a teacher cannot see their classes when they logon to…
The Government announced their intention to abolish National Insurance contributions for under-21s for the 2015-16 tax year, providing a significant financial incentive for businesses of all sizes to employ young people. Under-21 employees earning more than £42,285 per annum are considered above the Upper Earnings Limit and employer NIC will be liable as normal, however this will affect…
If a staff member has a higher pay scale within Salary Projection within FMS than they have on their contract within SIMS and this is incorrect please follow these steps: – Find the staff member’s personnel record within SIMS – Open their contract – Put an end date on their current Salary Scale Record that…
Schools have raised an issue where allowances, once used within Personnel, cannot be deleted and therefore many schools have a long list of redundant allowances to scroll down through before they get to the current, valid ones. This takes time and can also result in a contract being allocated an out-of-date allowance in error. We…
Go to Tools>Staff>Pay Related>New Enter a code, description, Hours Worked and Weeks Worked as required. If the pay pattern will be the same for all staff on this service term it may be entered here by clicking on the Pay Pattern button – split the weeks worked for the year between the months until the total…
At various times pay awards are negotiated for different types of staff and the resulting agreed amounts published. These figures will then need to be entered into Sims .net for both the School Workforce Census and budgeting purposes. The latest pay award information for those schools who are following the nationally agreed pay scales (LA…
The reasons for absences in Cover are held in a separate table from the reasons for absence in Personnel, but there is no reason why the tables cannot be the same, if desired. The Cover absences are within SIMS under | Tools | Cover | Reasons for Absence. Select a reason and click on Edit to see…
Absences such as meetings are recorded in Cover only – The member of staff is not actually absent therefore they are not recorded in Personnel. When adding or editing a reason for absence for Cover, in SIMS .net | Tools | Cover | Reasons for Absence, ensure that reasons are either ticked or unticked as…
This report uses all of the non-confidential School Workforce Census fields within SIMS and should be sent out to all staff in September of each year, in order to get all your data accurate and updated in time for the SWC in November. You can download this report by clicking here. 1. Save the Scomis Staff…
You may also get error ‘Not a valid start date ##/##/####. This is caused by an incorrect allowance description. Go to Tools | Staff | Pay Related. Search for the service term and then go to allowances. Open the allowance and you will see the description highlighted in red. Change the description as appropriate to…
1. In Sims .net go to Tools>Staff>Pay Related………….
The Claims module needs enough information from Sims .net to identify the person to Payroll………………
This is due to a missing date in the ‘Employment Start’ field……………..
If the allowance is a preset one then go to…
Because the status is deferred…