ABSTRACT
As with any other consent order, you may need to draft the terms of the order, particularly where specific contact is agreed, and to deal with the conditions to be attached to the supervision order. It is also helpful to draft out agreed facts and so on, as suggested at the beginning of this section. Whichever party you represent, you need to think through the factual basis on which the court will be invited to find that the threshold criteria have been made out. Some concession will be needed from the parents as to abuse or neglect, etc, but the court will not want to go into narrow differences of wording. If you cannot agree or the court is not satisfied by the concessions made, there may have to be oral evidence limited to the major facts which establish the criteria.
