sical and mental health and behaviour and, if age appropriate, a developmental assessment, their health history and current and future heath care needs. The detailed health reports are only submitted to the adoption panel if the medical adviser considers that this is necessary (see chapter 1, paragraph 7). The agency should make the medical adviser aware of all medical information about the child and their family. 2.64. The accuracy of the CPR is essential, since it will not only form the basis on which decisions are made about whether the child should be placed for adoption but will also assist the agency in matching the child with an appropriate prospective adopter, and will be the source of the information about the child on which the prospective adopter will rely. In due course the child, on reaching adulthood, will 48 be able to request a copy of the CPR under the AIR and may have to rely on this document as the principal source of information about their pre-adoption history. 2.65. It is important therefore that the information contained in the CPR is checked against the original sources of information. Those parts of the CPR that contain factual information about the birth family should be shared with the relevant family members to enable them to confirm their accuracy and agree to it being passed on to the child in due course. Any such agreement should be clearly recorded on the child’s case record. Each of the child’s parents should also be shown those parts of the CPR which set out their views and wishes, and given the opportunity, if they so wish, to express these in their own words. Where writing is not their preferred means of communication, they could be assisted to express their wishes by other means such as an audio-recording. Where the child is old enou