SLC has published its Annual Business Plan 2026-27, outlining how it will continue to deliver for customers, shareholders and colleagues. CEO Chris Larmer introduces the plan and shares his thoughts on the year ahead.
"I am delighted to introduce SLC’s annual business plan for the financial year 2026-27, in which we share our plans to fulfil our core purpose to enable opportunity through the delivery of student finance."
The plan shows how SLC will perform its core remit. SLC has an excellent track record in continuously improving the services it provides.
Last year, SLC safely delivered the academic cycle, making payments of c. £12bn to over 2m students and c. £12bn to universities and colleges. Progress was seen across key priorities.
For customers, SLC delivered the best ever application cycle, a year of better for disabled students, a digital step-change and year-on-year repayments improvements.
For shareholders, the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) is now a huge step closer, with leading public sector fraud prevention results and DfE-recognised financial management against a background of technical and security resilience.
For colleagues, SLC introduced new values, new skills and new ways of working, and set up new colleague networks.
Plans for 2026-27 again focus on progress for customers, shareholders and colleagues through strategic objectives. SLC will continue its critical public service role through effective and efficient administration of student finance, co-designing and implementing the Government shareholders’ priority policy changes to reform the student finance system, and looking to transform SLC through Programme Enable into a simpler, more modern, digital organisation.
"A few final words: I would like to publicly record my thanks to our outgoing Chair, Sir Peter Lauener, not just for everything he has done for SLC (both as Chair and in a previous term as Interim CEO) but also for his shrewd advice and unfailing support to me personally."
"And of course, a very warm welcome to our new Chair, Gary Page, who already has a wealth of experience as an SLC Board member."
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