Hon CHRIS HIPKINS: From 1 January 2022, schools and early learning services and providers will need to maintain a register and ensure that only vaccinated staff and support people, such as volunteers, have contact with children and students. They will need to have their first dose by 15 November. This includes home-based educators and all those support people in our schools and early learning services, such as teacher aides, administration and maintenance staff, and contractors. Secondary schools and kura will also be required to keep a COVID-19 vaccination register for students. Students that don't produce evidence of vaccination will be considered to be unvaccinated. All school employees in Auckland and other alert level 3 regions will be required to return a negative COVID-19 test before they can return to work on the school site. Those who are not fully vaccinated in the period leading up to 1 January will also be required to undergo weekly COVID-19 testing. Work is continuing at this point on whether further vaccination requirements will be made for the tertiary education sector