Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021 (asc4)

Prospective

PART 5 E+W CURRICULUM: POST COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS

59 General curriculum requirement E+W

(1) The head teacher and governing body of a maintained school must ensure that the curriculum for the school's pupils complies with the requirement in subsection (2).

(2) The requirement is that the curriculum is a balanced and broadly based curriculum that⁠—

(a) promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of the pupils and of society, and

(b) prepares the pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

(3) A local authority in Wales must exercise its functions with a view to ensuring that the curriculum complies with the requirement in subsection (2) in every maintained school that it maintains.

(4) The Welsh Ministers must exercise their functions with a view to ensuring that the curriculum complies with the requirement in subsection (2) in every maintained school.