lf of the agency who has the necessary experience and is supervised by a social worker employed by the agency who has the necessary experience; or  a student social worker on an approved course supervised by a social worker employed by the agency who has the necessary experience. 1.13. The necessary experience is at least three years’ post-qualifying experience in childcare social work, including direct experience of adoption work. While the ARR do not define ‘direct experience of adoption’, this should be experience as:  a social worker responsible for a child where the agency has decided that the child should be placed for adoption and the social worker has been personally involved in considering whether the child should be placed for adoption, the matching, placement and review stages of the adoption process; and/or  a social worker responsible for the recruitment, preparation, assessment and support of adoptive families. 1.14. The social worker who knows the child best should, wherever possible, prepare the report about the child, or those parts of a report that are about the child. 1.15. For those individuals who are being supervised, their work should be supervised in accordance with their particular skills, experience and development needs. It is not necessary for the supervised social worker to be under the direct line management of the supervising social worker. 1.16. Where reports are being prepared by social work students, independent social workers or social workers who do not have the necessary experience, the draft report should be considered and discussed during supervision and signed off by a social worker with the necessary experience before the report is submitted to the adoption panel, another agency, or the court. 18 1.17. Reports should be legibl