# Curriculum and Assessment (Wales) Act 2021, Section 59: General 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/4/section/59 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-59
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