http://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/4/section/7/2022-09-01Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021An Act of Senedd Cymru to establish a new framework for a curriculum for pupils of compulsory school age at maintained schools and pupil referral units, for children of compulsory school age for whom education is otherwise arranged by local authorities, for pupils at maintained nursery schools and for certain other children for whom nursery education is provided; to make provision about progression and assessment in connection with a curriculum for those pupils and children; to make provision about a curriculum for pupils above compulsory school age at maintained schools; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-09-02Expert Participation2022-09-01 PART 1 71The Welsh Ministers must issue a code (the “Progression Code”) that sets out the way in which a curriculum is to make provision for progression by pupils and children.2A curriculum does not make provision for appropriate progression unless it accords with the Progression Code.3Teaching and learning does not make provision for appropriate progression unless it accords with the Progression Code.4The Welsh Ministers—amust keep the Progression Code under review, andbmay revise it.5For further provision about the Progression Code, see section 76.S. 7 in force at 29.9.2021 for specified purposes by S.I. 2021/1069, art. 3S. 7 in force at 1.9.2022 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/652, art. 4(a)