A role of the Children Hearing System is to organise a panel. After a referral and an investigation, the reporter must decide if a panel should be organised. If this is the case then they will contact all the people that are involved including the panel members, the child’s school, the child and their family. For example, in attendance at a meeting you will always have the 3 panel members who are volunteers but you will also almost always have a teacher, the child, a social worker, a safe-guarder and the family.