contact with the child if the agency is authorised to place the child for adoption or the child is adopted; and  the agency’s views about the child’s need for contact with their parent or guardian or other relative or with any other person the agency considers relevant and the arrangements the agency proposes to make for allowing any person contact with the child. 7.32. Where the panel makes a recommendation to the agency that the child should be placed for adoption, it is required to consider and may at the same time give advice to the agency about the arrangements which the agency proposes to make for allowing any person contact with the child (AAR 18.3). The decision-maker may also express a view in relation to the panel’s advice on contact, and any such view should be recorded on the child’s case record. 16 Neil, E., Sellick, C., Young, J., Cossar, J., and Lorgelly, P. (2010) Helping Birth Families: A study of service provision, cost and outcomes, Adoption Research Initiative study. 125 Chapter 3 7.33. The preparation of the prospective adopter should include giving information to the prospective adopter about contact between a child and their parent or guardian or other relatives where a child is authorised to be placed for adoption or is adopted (AAR 24). 7.34. The prospective adopter’s report prepared for the adoption panel under AAR 30 and Schedule 4 must include the views and feelings of the prospective adopter about contact. Chapter 4 7.35. Where the agency is considering placing a child with prospective adopter it must ascertain the view of the prospective adopter about the arrangements that the agency proposes in relation to contact with the child (AAR 31.1). 7.36. Under AAR 31.2 when the agency considers that a proposed placement should proceed, it must co