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Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021

Section 59 - General curriculum requirement

134.This section requires the head teacher and governing body of a maintained school to ensure that the curriculum for pupils above compulsory school age is a balanced and broadly based curriculum that—

  • promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of the pupils and of society, and

  • prepares the pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.

135.It also requires a local authority to exercise its functions with a view to ensuring a curriculum of this kind for pupils above compulsory school age in every school that the authority maintains. And it also requires the Welsh Ministers to exercise their functions with a view to ensuring a curriculum of this kind for pupils above compulsory school age in every maintained school in Wales.

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