Published: 24/06/2026 · Last Updated: 24/06/2026

Bulletin for June 2026

Holiday information for academic year (AY) 2026/27

If you've not already done so, please enter holiday information for AY 2026/27 on the LC Portal.

You need to enter all weeks that your learning centre is on holiday for the whole academic year before it starts in September. This includes summer holidays for 2027.

You'll not be able to confirm attendance for AY 2026/27 until you've entered your holidays. This could affect the scheduling of payments to students.

There's guidance on entering your Learning Centre's holidays on the LC Services website.

Service review forums

Thank you to those who attended our online and face to face service review forums. The event resources are available on the LC Services website.

Sample checks

A reminder that we no longer carry out the household income sample check for EMA in June or July. HMRC will now complete an automatic household income check for all returning student applications. If students pass the check, we'll approve their application. If a student fails the household income check, we'll reject the application. A failed application will not show on the portal and we'll notify the student that we've rejected their application. This is a new change for AY 2026/27. Students would previously have shown as 'missing evidence' on the portal.

The November dependency sample check will continue as usual for EMA.

Learning agreements for AY 2026/27

Please encourage students who receive EMA and are continuing their studies with you next academic year to sign a new learning agreement before they finish the term. This will help you at your busiest time in September as you'll have them ready to input to the portal when they return. It will also help you to achieve your 10 day service standard and make sure students get paid as soon as possible at the start of the year.

Removing students from your AY 2026/27 portal

Please remove any students who will not be returning to learning in AY 2026/27 from the portal.

To remove students:

Go to Worklist then Application worklist within the portal.
Select 26/27 from the academic year dropdown.
Select the Remove checkbox against any students who will not be returning in September.

Please make sure you choose the 26/27 dropdown. You don't have to remove any students from this year's 25/26 portal.

You can restore a student you've already removed however you cannot restore any students that we've removed. If you need to restore a student we've removed, please contact the Partners Support Desk.

There's further guidance on removing students from the portal on the LC Services website.

WGLG end of academic year checks

As we're approaching the end of the academic year, it's important that all student attendance is up to date. We've contacted anyone who has outstanding attendances. If we've been in touch please make sure that your student attendances are up to date before the end of the academic year.

EMA/WGLG FE support desk

Our support desk team is available from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday to answer any day to day operational questions about individual students, application processing, payments and system issues.

You can contact the support desk on 0300 200 4050 (option 6 for EMA queries, option 5 for WGLG FE) or email emainfo@slc.co.uk.