om care to a permanent home. This will help inform post-adoption support for the child and the child’s new parents and enable continuity of services. 91. At a strategic level: • local authorities should have robust arrangements in place for the commissioning of timely health assessments so that prospective adopters have the information they need to support the child placed with them • local authorities and CCGs should cooperate to make sure adoption agencies and panels secure access to timely medical advice and comprehensive information about a child’s health so as to avoid unnecessary delays in the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 for them to have a health assessment and plan are disapplied. 30 • local authorities and health service providers should work together to ensure that information in health records is not lost once the child ceases to be looked after. 92. At an operational level, at an early stage where adoption is the planned permanence option for a looked-after child, social workers should: • comply with the requirements for health assessments and reviews set out in the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005 • build on the health assessments and information already included in the child’s health plan. • request adoption medicals that include the requirements for any further medical reports necessary for the purposes of placement order proceedings, for example, in relation to any on-going mental health needs and therapeutic services that need consideration to support bonding and attachment with the child’s prospective new parents. 93. The local authority should be ready to file the medical (and other) reports required under Rule 29 of the Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005 and Annex B of the Practice Direction which suppleme