5, but ASR 15.4 and 15.5 set out the circumstances in which the financial circumstances of the adoptive parent may or must be disregarded. 9.27. It will be seen that the conditions set out in ASR 8.2, looked at alongside those provisions of ASR 15 under which the means test is mandatory, require that there must be some particular condition relating to the child’s health or development, or circumstances making it hard to place the child for adoption. Where the child needs special care under ASR 8.2.b, it is intended that financial support should be available where the child’s condition is serious and long-term. This might arise, for example: 173  where the child needs a special diet, or  where clothes, shoes or bedding need to be replaced more frequently than would be the case for a child unaffected by the particular condition, or  the child’s special emotional needs may mean that extra help is needed to enable the parent to give the child one-to one attention. See the Practice Guidance on Assessing the Support Needs of Adoptive Families for more examples. Remuneration for former foster carers: ASR 9 9.28. Financial support cannot normally include the payment of remuneration to the adoptive parent for care of the adoptive child. ASR 9 provides, however, that where the adoptive parent previously fostered the child they are adopting, and they received an element of remuneration in the financial support paid to them as the child’s foster parent, the local authority may continue to pay that element of remuneration for a transitional period of two years from the date of the adoption order. These payments can continue for longer than two years if the local authority considers the case to be exceptional. 9.29. The purpose of the transitional provision is to enable local auth