Schools Advisory Service (SAS) offer a wide range of support services to schools and is committed to working in partnership with them to develop and deliver high quality services individually tailored to the needs of each establishment. The costs of our services are competitive enabling schools to make the choice between more services for the same price or the same quantity of services for less. SAS will always seek to provide the high quality services irrespective of the quantity purchased.

Schools Advisory Service (SAS) is the largest supplier of sickness absence insurance in England with over 2500 schools purchasing its product. SAS has been providing this service to schools throughout England and Wales since 1997 and has been working in partnership with the NAHT since 2002 to develop its absence insurance product and following further success in this area it is only the company that has been awarded preferred supplier status from the NAHT.

• Staff Absence Insurance
• Finance
• Personnel
• Payroll
• Child Protection
• Buildings, employee/employer liabilities, school trips, mini buses Insurance

STAFF ABSENCE INSURANCE

The main focus of Schools Advisory Service is to protect schools against staff absence. In order to help schools deal more effectively with this, new programmes have been developed to not only cover against absence, but also to try and cut down the length of absences when they happen. Key benefits include;

• NASBM & NAHT preferred supplier
• Comprehensive cover
• Private Medical cover
• Stress counselling home visitation service
• Vocational medical service (Physiotherapy)
• Low cost – to help school budgets
• Fast response/ease of claiming
• 24 hour GP help line

PERSONNEL

This service is a comprehensive recruitment advice and support service. We provide general employee relations and employment law advice and guidance, offering practical support in addition for reassurance that the school is complying with all the necessary employment requirements.

Second Opinion Service (SOS) If a school is applying policies and procedures relating to discipline, grievance etc and it is not sure that it is following these policies and procedures correctly or it has some concerns about the advice it has received then Schools Advisory Service can offer SOS.

PAYROLL

We offer a range of payroll services from a fully managed payroll service by SAS with minimum involvement from the school. This includes PAYE payroll reporting requirements, including Year End, reports for the schools accounting package and payment of salaries and other deductions including pensions. Alternatively the school could be supported to run a payroll with minimum involvement from SAS, where they just provide and maintain the payroll software and give the relevant training. A helpdesk service and hands on support is offered with all options. SAS will also ensure a smooth transfer from the schools existing payroll provider.

FINANCE

To provide each school with a bespoke professional service to ease the burden of financial management within the school this service includes; provision of support and advice in all aspects of school finances and advice on how to operate your own bank account. SAS would provide a budget forecasting package complete with advice and assistance on identifying and bidding for external funding.

CHILD PROTECTION

Our services are designed to meet the needs of individual schools to ensure that your school has the most up to date advice to deliver professional solutions and advice in an area which can have dire results for the staff and the school.

OTHER INSURANCE

In addition to sickness absence insurance schools will have to make a number of other choices in relation to insurance cover, all of which SAS can provide. The most obvious relate to buildings and employee/employer liabilities but there are others such as travel; accidental damage; school trips; mini buses etc

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