                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INFORMATION SHARING; CONFIDENTIALITY (§ 2.2-5210)

All public agencies that have served a family or treated a child referred to a
family assessment and planning team shall cooperate with this team. The agency
that refers a youth and family to the team shall be responsible for obtaining
the consent required to share agency client information with the team. After
obtaining the proper consent, all agencies shall promptly deliver, upon request
and without charge, such records of services, treatment or education of the
family or child as are necessary for a full and informed assessment by the team.
		Proceedings held to consider the appropriate provision of services and funding
for a particular child or family or both who have been referred to the family
assessment and planning team and whose case is being assessed by this team or
reviewed by the community policy and management team shall be confidential and
not open to the public, unless the child and family who are the subjects of the
proceeding request, in writing, that it be open. All information about specific
children and families obtained by the team members in the discharge of their
responsibilities to the team shall be confidential.
		Utilizing a secure electronic database, the CPMT and the family assessment and
planning team shall provide the Office of Children&#8217;s Services with
client-specific information from the mandatory uniform assessment and
information in accordance with subdivision D 11 of § 2.2-2648.

HISTORY: 1992, cc. 837, 880, § 2.1-756; 2001, c. 844; 2008, c. 277; 2015, cc.
357, 366.