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Establishment and your choices

Community Services took your child.
You must go to Court.
Step 1 of your Court case
The magistrate must work out
Was Community Services right to say
  • your child was not safe
    and
  • take your child away?
or
Was Community Services wrong?
The Court want to know what you think.
Tell your lawyer what you think.
Your lawyer will tell the Court.
This step at Court is called Establishment.
You have 3 choices.
  1. You say yes.
    Community Services were right.
    You agree your child
    • was not safe
    • needs to be in a different home.
When you say yes.
You go to Step 2 of your Court case.
The magistrate asks
Can your child come back to you?
or
  1. You say yes
But
You do not agree with all the things Community Services say.
This is called agree without admissions.
Most parents say this.
You go to Step 2 of your Court case.
The magistrate also asks
Can your child come back to you?
or
  1. You say no
Community Services are wrong.
You say my child
  • is safe with me
and
  • does not need to live in a different home.
The magistrate asks
Why you think Community Services are wrong?
Community Services has lots of things they
  • saw
  • heard
  • read.
They have a report about all this.
They say your child
  • is not safe
  • can not stay at home.
Talk to your lawyer.
Your lawyer helps you choose 1 or 2 or 3.
You need to go to Court.

More information

This fact sheet is general information.
It may not be the same for you.
Talk to a lawyer about
  • your own child
  • your family.
This fact sheet was made by
  • The WASH House
  • The Ability Rights Centre. A service of IDRS
with
  • a Parent Advisory Group, 2020.
Images
We have used images from
  • ChangePeople
  • COMPIC
  • Mayer-Johnson
  • Participics
  • SocialBuzz
  • TheNounProject.
Access Easy English helped The WASH House write the Easy English.
March 2020.

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