PART 5CURRICULUM: POST COMPULSORY EDUCATION IN MAINTAINED SCHOOLS

59General curriculum requirement

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.