DoCS will substantiate a notification simply on the basis that it COULD happen.

Bleh! Anything COULD happen. But this does not mean that it WILL happen or HAS happened.

Family Law Court is not a court of evidence and this needs to change. The laws need to change where genuine evidence needs to be produced by DoCS to show proof of any allegation.

As it stands now, gossip, hearsay and sour grapes are good enough to have a child removed from it's home.

Concerns evolve into "facts" because report writers read it in the departmental history files and repeat it in their own reports.

Sorry, but repetition does not make fact.