PART 5

CURRICULUM: POST COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS

General curriculum requirement
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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.