Prospective
59General curriculum requirementE+W
(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.