
02/2024 Child Safety Hair Testing - Alcohol
Jul 16, 2024
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When a court is deciding on awarding custody (FCFCoA) or restoring parental rights (Children's Court) they will require a hair test for drugs and/or alcohol. This is based on a variety of factors including a persons health records (i.e. prescriptions for medications used to treat alcoholism, admittance to rehab etc.) and/or criminal record (i.e. drug related offences, alcohol related offences etc.).
Between March 2024 and June 2024 we received orders from the following courts to conduct hair follicle testing:
Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (approximately 80% of the orders)
Children's Court of New South Wales - Lismore (approximately 20% of the orders)
28.57% of all persons tested were confirmed positive for excessive amounts of alcohol.
71.43% of all persons tested were confirmed negative for excessive amounts of alcohol.
This is a better result than the first quarter but it still is a long way from 0.
We had no successful appeals against any alcohol testing performed by our service in this time period.