Article 21 Functions of a FTDC

establish a scheme for appraising family justices;

identify the training needs of family justices and, no later than 30th September in each year, give the relevant MATC a report of those training needs;

arrange for family justices to attend the relevant training in accordance with rule 31;

establish, in consultation with the family panel, the Area Director and the justices’ clerk, the number of family justices and approved family court chairmen needed for the local justice area; and

maintain a list of approved family court chairmen among the family justices assigned to its local justice area.