About

The State Child Fatality Advisory Committee (SCFAC) was enacted in 1993.

S.C. Code 63-11-1950 mandates that the State Child Fatality Advisory Committee (SCFAC) review completed investigations of deaths involving children age 17 years and younger that are unexpected, unexplained, suspicious, or criminal in nature.

Since its enactment, the committee has completed thousands of reviews.

Mission and Vision

The mission of the committee is to decrease the incidence of preventable child deaths by:

Developing an understanding of the causes and trends in child death;
Developing plans for implementing changes within the agencies represented;
Advising the Governor and the General Assembly on statutory, policy and practice changes which will prevent child deaths.

It is our vision to prevent future deaths of children by developing an understanding of how and why children die in the State of

South Carolina.

Collaboration

The committee’s collaboration serves as a means to implement changes and initiate action within agencies represented on the committee and to propose changes in statutes, regulation, policies, and procedures to ultimately prevent and reduce the number of child deaths in South Carolina.