The Child Fatality Review Team is multi-disciplinary and includes physicians and representatives from state and local agencies who provide services to families and children or who may be involved in the investigation of child death. The multi-disciplinary team yields insights, interventions, and strategies that form the basis for recommendations. The Chief Medical Examiner is Chair of the Virginia Child Fatality Review Team. Records of child may be obtained from health care provider, school, law enforcement, social services, and courts. Records and information are not discoverable.
Meetings discussing individual cases are closed.
At conclusion of investigation records are to be shredded. Information gathered may be disclosed in statistical form. Team members and attendees of closed meetings are to execute a sworn statement to honor confidentiality. Data are to be available to the Governor and the General Assembly. The team is to compile statistical data that does not identify individual children and that is a public record.