PART 1

BASIC CONCEPTS AND KEY DOCUMENTS

The What Matters Code
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1
The Welsh Ministers must issue a code (the “What Matters Code”) that sets out key concepts for each area of learning and experience.
2
A curriculum does not encompass an area of learning and experience unless it encompasses those concepts as set out in the What Matters Code.
3
Teaching and learning does not encompass an area of learning and experience unless it encompasses those concepts as set out in the What Matters Code.
4
The Welsh Ministers—
a
must keep the What Matters Code under review, and
b
may revise it.
5
For further provision about the What Matters Code, see section 76.
S. 6 in force at 29.9.2021 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1069, art. 3
S. 6 in force at 1.9.2022 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/652, art. 4(a)