 best interests. The reasons 151 given by the agency’s decision-maker for making the decision under AAR 19 should be included here. See chapter 1 for guidance on the way the decision- maker should make and record their decision. 8.89. Section 3 contains the agency’s recommendations, and will need to set out clearly the alternatives to adoption that have been considered and why the agency believes that the child’s long-term interests will be best met by a placement order. The agency’s opinion as to future contact, including the need for any order under section 26 of the Act must also be set out. This is a matter that will have been considered by the agency and the panel under Part 3 of the AAR, and on which the panel may have given advice under AAR 18.3. The agency will need to have considered whether it believes that the arrangements for contact that it proposes can be implemented without the need for an order, and, if so, explain why. Since generally the prospective adopter will not yet have been matched with the child, it may be difficult to be precise about the contact arrangements that will be appropriate once the child has been placed. But the report needs to make it clear what sort of future contact, and with whom, the agency believes is important for the child’s welfare, and how crucial a factor this will be in identifying a suitable prospective adopter for the child. Signing and submitting the report 8.90. The report must identify its principal authors and their role in relation to the case (see Part 1) and its contents should be signed off by the agency. It is also essential that its contents be seen by the local authority legal adviser with responsibility for lodging the application and filing evidence with the court. The legal adviser should submit the origin