Commentary on Sections Part 5 Post Compulsory Education in Maintained Schools Section 59 - General curriculum requirement
134.This section requires the head teacher and governing body of a maintained school to ensure that the curriculum for pupils above compulsory school age is a balanced and broadly based curriculum that—
	promotes the spiritual, moral, cultural, mental and physical development of the pupils and of society, and
	prepares the pupils for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
135.It also requires a local authority to exercise its functions with a view to ensuring a curriculum of this kind for pupils above compulsory school age in every school that the authority maintains. And it also requires the Welsh Ministers to exercise their functions with a view to ensuring a curriculum of this kind for pupils above compulsory school age in every maintained school in Wales.