Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency

Last updated: 26 October 2009

This consultation ran from Thursday, 30 April, until 5pm Friday, 24 July 2009, and has now closed.
The secretary of state asked the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) to manage a public consultation on important changes to the national curriculum.

The proposals were about:

1. the primary curriculum
2. personal, social, health and economic education across both primary and secondary phases
3. subject level descriptions
4. updated non-statutory guidance on religious education.

You can read a summary of the changes in the consultation overview.

QCDA has published its consultation report and recommendations on level descriptions, following the recent public consultation.  

You can read QCDA's report on the consultation, together with a letter from QCDA chief executive Andrew Hall to the secretary of state. Complete revised level descriptions can also be downloaded from this page.