To clarify the procedure for empanelment of short term and ongoing members of child protection teams. Empanelment is the act of officially appointing an individual to a child protection team by signing the team membership certificate.
Most members serve terms of one year.
However, in the interest of promoting effective case review and coordination, some professionals will be members for only one or two meetings. No person will participate in child protection team meetings without being empanelled, except that a family member may attend to discuss his or her own family situation. During the month of September, every child protection team will submit a list of team members for the year to the commissioner. The commissioner will empanel the team and members for the year, beginning October 1. These will be sent in a timely fashion so that members do not participate in meetings without being empanelled.