If your child is in Year 7 or Year 10 this year, you can provide online consent for their routine school vaccinations. Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.
Types of vaccinations
In Year 7, students are offered free vaccines for diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) and human papillomavirus (HPV).
In Year 10, students are offered the meningococcal ACWY vaccine.
Online consent
How to provide consent:
- To complete online consent for your child's school vaccinations, visit this link.
- Follow the steps to log in to your existing ServiceNSW account. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver's licence. If you don't have a ServiceNSW account, refer to ServiceNSW to create one.
- Update or confirm your personal details in Service NSW as required.
- Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your child/ren. You will need to:
- Enter your child's personal details
- Provide the Medicare card details for you and your child
- Read the linked Parent Information Sheet and privacy statement. Translations available in 27 languages
- Provide consent.
The benefits of providing consent online:
- easily update your child's details
- receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given
- faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper consent form directly from your child’s school.
Paper consent
If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper consent form directly from your child's school.
Paper consent forms can be found at the front office.
School Vaccination Program (translated consent materials)
If you require information in your language, please visit this link.
More information
For more information on routine school vaccinations, please visit NSW Health.
