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I could go on. This is not a legal question but a moral one. If we legislate so that protective acts by parents are treated with automatic suspicion, while bureaucratic triggers are treated as irrefutable, we risk criminalising care and entrenching harm. Thousands of families, particularly those with disabled children or facing poverty or domestic violence, are depending on us to get this balance right. This amendment gives them the fair process that they deserve. It places the burden back where it belongs—on the state to justify overriding parents, not on parents to justify acting in their child’s best interests.