CHILDREN AND THE LAW
...Dependency Petitions
......Mandatory Reporting & Exams
.........Hearing
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Excluding testimony of "very eager" 13-yr.-old, without a finding of good cause, and without any evidentiary basis, rendered CANRA proceeding against mother fundamentally unfair.

Hearing officer has a duty to question the truth of evidence the social worker relied on in finding child abuse report to be substantiated; procedural safeguards added to CANRA to satisfy DP.