{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-24.json",
  "legislation": "asc/2021/4",
  "legislation_title": "Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021",
  "path": "section/24",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Areas of learning and experience and cross-curricular skills",
  "text": "(1) The curriculum must make provision for teaching and learning that—\n(a) encompasses each of the areas of learning and experience, including the mandatory elements within the areas of learning and experience, and\n(b) develops the mandatory cross-curricular skills.\n(2) The provision for teaching and learning encompassing the mandatory element of Relationships and Sexuality Education must be developmentally appropriate for pupils, or children.\n(3) The provision for teaching and learning encompassing the mandatory element of Religion, Values and Ethics must accord with Part 1 of Schedule 1, except where subsection (4) applies.\n(4) This subsection applies where the provision for teaching and learning is made—\n(a) for pupils in a class in which the majority of the pupils are below compulsory school age at the beginning of the school year;\n(b) for children for whom funded non-maintained nursery education is provided.\n(5) If the curriculum applies to pupils who have completed the school year in which the majority of the pupils in their class attained the age of 14, it must offer those pupils a choice of teaching and learning within each area of learning and experience.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 1.9.2025 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 8(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 24 in force at 1.9.2026 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2022/652, art. 9(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 24(1)(2)(3)(4) in force at 1.9.2022 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 5(1)(2)(a), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 24(1)(2)(3)(4) in force at 1.9.2023 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 6(1)(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 24(1)(2)(3)(4) in force at 1.9.2024 for specified purposes by S.I. 2022/652, art. 7(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/4/section/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:54.961717+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}