The report should have all the identifying information about the parents, children, legal names, legal history, such as date of marriage, divorce, court docket numbers, paternity and things of that nature.  What the issues are, and the allegations listed in the DCF Affidavit should include some family history, the conduct of the parties prior to the case going on. Each parent should be interviewed at least once and should be able to include the response to the allegations in the Affidavit.  The children should be interviewed or at least met with even if they are not verbal.

The Investigator should look at copies of DCF records and give the parents the opportunity to provide records, talk to what is considered collateral; which can be witnesses on the parent’s behalf or school personal and people that are involved with the families but not actually the parties.