tion for advocacy provision from October 2005. The Advocacy Co-ordinator provides some direct advocacy service as well as recruiting and managing sessional advocates. The service includes advocacy for looked after children making a complaint or expressing concerns and support for young people at review meetings. The Co-ordinator is line managed by the Children’s Rights Officer, and accountable to a new Management Board. The Children’s Rights Service is ‘in house’ to social services, as part of the Quality Group in the Performance and Support Service section of Gloucestershire’s Social Services Department. It is therefore outside the direct line management for children’s social services and will not report to operational Children and Families managers. The Advocacy Management Board has been established to advise and assist the local authority with the management of the Independent Advocacy Service, under the terms of the advocacy guidance and the National Standards for the Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services. It consists of eight members including two independent people and two young people with experience of the Looked After System. 24 5. Monitoring Advocacy Services INTRODUCTION 5.1 Local authorities should keep under regular review their arrangements for the implementation of this guidance. Review and monitoring of the guidance should take place at yearly intervals and should be the responsibility of the Director of Social Services. ANNUAL REPORTS 5.2 Local authorities are already required under regulation 10 of the Representations Procedure (Children) Regulations 1991 made under section 26(6) of the Children Act 1989 to monitor the arrangements that they have made with a view to ensuring that they comply with the Regulations by keeping a record of each represen