(e) Ensure that the implementation of legislative reforms to the care and protection system fully conforms with the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. (f) Urgently implement and make publicly available the Privacy, Human Rights and Ethics Framework governing predictive risk modelling in the child protection sector. Education (LOT 14) 92. New Zealand’s National Certificates of Educational Achievement (“NCEA”) are national qualifications for senior secondary school students. NCEA is recognised by employers and used as the benchmark for selection by universities and polytechnics. Education achievement of Level 2 NCEA is a significant indicator of positive outcomes in later life. 93. Ka Hikitia – Accelerating Success 2013-2017 outlines five focus areas to raise Māori achievement in education, namely improving Māori language, increasing earlychildhood education (“ECE”), improving achievement in primary and secondary education, increasing success in tertiary education, and for education sector agencies to create conditions for Māori student to achieve. Since Ka Hikitia was introduced more Māori children are attending ECE and Māori students’ performance in National Standards (reading, writing and mathematics) and attainment of NCEA has increased. Research also indicates that where students are taught in culturally responsive learning environments and are exposed to their indigenous language and culture they are more likely to succeed. 94. Māori participation and achievement in tertiary education has also increased in recent years. Twenty-eight percent of Māori students were studying at Bachelors level and above in 2014, up from 21 % in 2007. The rate at which Māori complete qualifications has also increased: of Māori who started full-time study at Level 4 or above in 2007, 62% had completed a qualification within five years, compared with a rate of 53 % for those who started in 2004.73 95. Despite these improvements, current data shows a continuing gap between Māori and other ethnicities. Data released in 2017 shows that 71.1% of 18-year-old Māori have an NCEA Level 2 qualification or above compared with 87.3% for Europeans 73 New Zealand’s twenty first to twenty-second periodic reports under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination 23