ications of adoption. This must include that her consent to her child’s adoption will not be effective until six weeks after the child’s birth. See paragraphs 88-92 for the consent procedures in such cases. The agency should ascertain and record her wishes and feelings. 2.50. The agency should also provide pre-birth counselling and ascertain the wishes and feelings of the expected child’s father. Where the agency knows the father’s identity and is satisfied it is appropriate to do so, the agency should also counsel him and any other person the agency considers relevant to the child, and it should ascertain their wishes and feelings. AAR 14 should be followed, where it is reasonably practicable for the agency to do so. 2.51. The agency should consider the care options for the child and where it considers that adoption is the preferred option it should:  commence the CPR and the health report;  arrange for the agency medical adviser and adoption panel to be ready to consider the case as soon as possible after the child is born; and  begin family finding so that the baby can be placed for adoption with prospective adopters once the decision-maker has decided that the child should be placed for adoption and placed with those specific prospective adopters. 2.52. When the child is born, the agency should counsel the mother, and where it is reasonably practicable and the agency considers it appropriate, the child’s father, to ascertain whether they still wish to relinquish the child for adoption. If they do, the agency should immediately complete the CPR needed for the adoption panel to consider whether the child should be placed for adoption and, where this is the case, whether the child should be placed with particular adopters. With enough 45 preparation the adoption pan