All early childhood services must meet their responsibilities under
                                                    the Privacy Act 2020, which include providing a Privacy statement on
                                                    enrolment agreements which meets the requirements of that Act (see
                                                    Principle 3 - Collection of information from subject). Additionally,
                                                    all Privacy statements must include the exact wording below:
                                                
                                                    Personal information about your child collected on this enrolment
                                                        form is shared with the Ministry of Education who store it
                                                        securely and treat it in accordance with the Privacy Act 2020.
                                                    
                                                    Information is disclosed to the Ministry:
                                                    
                                                        - for funding allocation purposes
- for monitoring purposes
- to allow the assignment of a National Student Number* to
                                                            your child, and
- to allow the Minister or Secretary of Education to exercise
                                                            any of their other powers or responsibilities under the
                                                            Education and Training Act 2020, and as permitted by Privacy
                                                            Principles 10 and 11.
Completed forms may also be viewed by Ministry officials on
                                                        request for the purposes of monitoring and licensing.
                                                    * A National Student Number is a unique identifier for your child
                                                        within the education system. You can find more information about
                                                        National Student Numbers and what they are used for at National
                                                        Student Number (NSN) » NZQA 
                                                 
                                                Early childhood services can find out more information about NSN
                                                    assignment – including acceptable identity verification documents –
                                                    at: National Student Numbers (NSN) – Education in New Zealand 
                                                The Ministry recommends keeping a record of identity verification
                                                    documents that have been sighted, but not retaining copies of
                                                    identity verification documents, which if received, should be
                                                    securely destroyed once verified.