WEST DUNBARTONSHIRE CHILDREN`S PANEL

How are Panel Members selected?

• Panel Members are selected by a special body called the Children's Panel Advisory Committee (CPAC).
• The CPAC will look at your application then contact you to let you know if you have been selected for interview or not.
• At the interview Members of the CPAC will talk with you and after hearing your views and checking your availability, the Committee will decide whether or not you will make a good panel member.
• The CPAC will then let you know of their decision.
• The CPAC will then make their recommendation to the First Minister.
• The First Minister then appoints Panel Members for a certain period of time, initially three years.