{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/curriculum-and-assessment-wales-act-2021/section-63.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/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Duty to have regard to mental health and emotional well-being of children and young persons",
  "text": "(1) A person within subsection (2) must, in exercising any function conferred by or under this Act, have regard to the mental health and emotional well-being of children and young persons likely to be affected by the exercise of the function.\n(2) The persons are—\n(a) the head teacher of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school;\n(b) the governing body of a maintained school or a maintained nursery school;\n(c) a provider of funded non-maintained nursery education;\n(d) the teacher in charge of a pupil referral unit;\n(e) the management committee for a pupil referral unit;\n(f) a person who provides teaching and learning for a child otherwise than at a maintained school, maintained nursery school or pupil referral unit by virtue of arrangements made under section 19A of the Education Act 1996 (c. 56);\n(g) a local authority in Wales.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 63 in force at 1.9.2022 by S.I. 2022/652, art. 4(d)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asc/2021/4/section/63",
    "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."
}