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Last Updated: 11 June

Learner Support Guidance updated for 2009/10

A suite of Guidance is now available for the Learner Support schemes provided by the Learning and Skills Council, including Education Maintenance Allowance, Adult Learning Grant, Care to Learn, Free Childcare for Training and Learning for Work, Dance and Drama Awards and Sixth Form College Childcare Scheme.

These documents replace the 2008/09 Guidance and are designed to advise you about how to operate the various Learner Support schemes within your organisation and how to get the best from them.

You can access and download these documents from our Money to Learn page at http://www.lsc.gov.uk/providers/moneytolearn/.

Please dispose of the 2008/09 Guidance and ensure you use the most up to date Guidance by visiting our website regularly.

Please be aware that for EMA, advice for Providers delivering Further Education and advice for Providers of LSC funded Entry to Employment (E2E) and Programme Led Apprenticeships (PLA) is now contained in a single document for 2009/10. Please use this document in conjunction with the Education Maintenance Allowance Marketing and Communications Guidance which has also been updated for the new academic year; this document outlines what marketing and support materials are available and identifies ways in which you can raise awareness of EMA.


Request an EMA and ALG application pack on-line
As part of our development of the Learner Support Service we are pleased to let you know that learners can now request 2009/10 EMA and ALG application packs from the ‘how to apply’ section on the Directgov website.

  • ALG applicants can request an application pack by clicking here.
  • EMA applicants can request an application pack by clicking here.

Learners are asked to fill out some basic information about themselves, including their name, date of birth and address. Once submitted an application pack will be sent to their home address within 10 working days.

Please remember that under the EMA Guarantee learners who received EMA in 2008/09 are automatically eligible to receive the same amount of support in 2009/10 (except those on an e2e programme who were not income assessed in 2008/09). For more information about the EMA Guarantee please visit the EMA website, or see the Super User Email.