Approved parenting and early childhood home
education programmes
Registration of Interest form
WHAT DO I NEED TO DO?
1. You should read Information for applicants before completing this Registration of Interest form
2. Read and complete the Initial Checklist at the bottom of this page.
3. Complete all parts of this Registration of Interest form:
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Part A – Details of programme provider
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Part B – Evidence in support of application
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Declaration
4. Attach evidence to support your Registration of Interest.
5. Once completed, the form can either be:
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scanned
and
emailed
to
the
Ministry
of
Social
Development
at
ECE_Approved_Programmes@msd.govt.nz
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or sent by post to:
Approved parenting and early childhood home education programmes
Registration of Interest
Ministry of Social Development
PO Box 1556
WELLINGTON
Applications must be received by 5pm on Monday, 12 August 2013.
We will contact you in September 2013 to let you know the outcome of your Registration of
Interest.
If you have any questions around completing your Registration of Interest, please email
ECE_Approved_Programmes@msd.govt.nz
Note Providers with a programme delivered in many locations only need to complete one
registration of interest form.
Initial Checklist
Providers with programmes, which are required by the Ministry of Education to be licensed or
certificated CANNOT apply to become approved parenting and early childhood home
education programmes.
Please respond YES or NO to the following questions:
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Is your programme focused on educational outcomes for children?
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Is your programme delivered to parents/caregivers of child/ren in their home?
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Is your programme for children from the ages of 3-5 (or 6 if not yet in school)?
If you answered yes to all these questions then please complete sections A and B and return this form
in one of the ways outlined above.
If you answered ‘no’ to any of these questions then you may not be eligible to become an approved
parenting and early childhood home education programme. Please email
ECE_Approved_Programmes@msd.govt.nz if you would like to discuss.
Part A: Details of programme provider
What is the name of the programme that you wish to obtain MSD authorisation for?
How long has this programme been operating?
In which region/s is your programme delivered?
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Northland
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Central
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Auckland Metro
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Wellington
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Bay of Plenty
Waikato
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Nelson
Canterbury
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Taranaki
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Southern
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East Coast
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Nationwide
Postal address of programme provider
Name and position of programme provider contact
Contact details for programme provider contact
Work phone
Mobile phone
Email address
Attach evidence here
Part B: Evidence in support of application
PROGRAMME MUST DELIVER POSITIVE EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES FOR THE
CHILDREN TO WHOM IT IS PROVIDED
Set out how your programme facilitates a child’s mental, social, physical and emotional
development, as well as receptiveness to learning.
You should provide evidence to support this, for example, through an internal peer reviewed
evaluation, independent evaluation of the programme or any other supporting material e.g.
feedback from parents/caregivers etc.
Attach evidence here
PROGRAMME IS SUPERVISED AND HAS SPECIFIC LEARNING OUTCOMES
How often are parents/caregivers who are delivering the programme to their children visited?
Provide details of how parents/caregivers who are delivering the programme to their children
are provided with on-going support to deliver the programme effectively.
(For example, this might include regular visits, follow up phone calls and text messages etc.)
How does your programme provide adequate supervision of
employees/contractors/volunteers who visit these parents/caregivers?
(For example, this might include training, regular check-ins by the programme provider, etc.)
How is the child’s progress and participation recorded and monitored?
(For example, this might include having an attendance register, requiring the
parents/caregivers to provide reports to the programme provider and vice versa etc.)
Describe how your programme is delivered; outlining the planned framework you have in
place for the regular delivery of the components of your programme. For example, a
curriculum, learning programme agreed between the programme provider and
parent/caregiver etc.
Where you can, provide examples of learning modules or plans.
Attach evidence here
PROGRAMME IS ALIGNED WITH GOVERNMENT PRIORITIES RELATING TO ECE AND
VULNERABLE CHILDREN
Does your programme support children to move into ECE and how does it do this?
What policies do you have in place relating to the prevention, identification and reporting of
child abuse and neglect and how are these policies implemented?
What policies and procedures do you have in place to ensure that children are not placed at
risk through the delivery of the programme?
(This must include Police checks of employees/contractors/volunteers who visit
parents/caregivers and are in contact with children).
Part C: Declaration
If your programme becomes an approved programme it is your responsibility to immediately
inform the Ministry of any changes which could affect your approval status.
DECLARATION
Programme provider:
I confirm that the information provided in this Registration of Interest is true and correct to the best of
my knowledge and I am authorised to make it on behalf of the named programme provider.
Name and position of programme provider representative:…………………………………………….
Signature………………………………………………………
PRIVACY STATEMENT
The Privacy Act 1993 requires us to tell you that:
Personal Information provided to us is for the purpose of determining this application to become an approved
parenting and early childhood home education programme.
If this application is successful, personal information provided will be held by the Ministry of Social Development
You have the right to access personal information we hold about you, and to ask us to correct that information
This application does not require you to provide the requested personal information, but if you do not give us the
information we ask for, this application to become an approved parenting and early childhood home education
programme may be declined.
If you have included information from programme participants it is your responsibility to obtain their consent to
share this with MSD as part of the approvals process.
Applications must be received by 5pm on Monday, 12 August 2013.