2006 Code of Virginia § 2.2-5207 - Family assessment and planning team; membership; immunity from liability

2.2-5207. Family assessment and planning team; membership; immunity fromliability.

Each community policy and management team shall establish and appoint one ormore family assessment and planning teams as the needs of the communityrequire. Each family assessment and planning team shall includerepresentatives of the following community agencies who have authority toaccess services within their respective agencies: community services boardestablished pursuant to 37.2-501, juvenile court services unit, departmentof social services, and local school division. Each family and planning teamalso shall include a parent representative and may include a representativeof the department of health at the request of the chair of the localcommunity policy and management team. Parent representatives who are employedby a public or private program that receives funds pursuant to this chapteror agencies represented on a family assessment and planning team may serve asa parent representative provided that they do not, as a part of theiremployment, interact directly on a regular and daily basis with children orsupervise employees who interact directly on a regular basis with children.Notwithstanding this provision, foster parents may serve as parentrepresentatives. The family assessment and planning team may include arepresentative of a private organization or association of providers forchildren's or family services and of other public agencies.

Persons who serve on a family assessment and planning team shall be immunefrom any civil liability for decisions made about the appropriate servicesfor a family or the proper placement or treatment of a child who comes beforethe team, unless it is proven that such person acted with malicious intent.Any person serving on such team who does not represent a public agency shallfile a statement of economic interests as set out in 2.2-3117 of the Stateand Local Government Conflict of Interests Act ( 2.2-3100 et seq.). Personsrepresenting public agencies shall file such statements if required to do sopursuant to the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act.

Persons serving on the team who are parent representatives or who representprivate organizations or associations of providers for children's or familyservices shall abstain from decision-making involving individual cases oragencies in which they have either a personal interest, as defined in 2.2-3101 of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, or afiduciary interest.

(1992, cc. 837, 880, 2.1-753; 1995, c. 190; 1999, c. 644; 2001, c. 844;2003, c. 483.)