Where there are combined care and placement order applications the guardian appointed in the care proceedings will usually be appointed for the placement order application. Contact 8.14. Before making a placement order the court must consider contact, and may make a contact order under section 26 of the Act. The application form therefore requires information to be given about the current and proposed contact arrangements, and Practice Direction 14C also contains information about contact, the child’s and parents’ wishes in this regard, and the local authority’s recommendations. 131 Combined care and placement order applications 8.15. If care proceedings are in progress at the time that the local authority’s decision- maker decides that a child should be placed for adoption, section 22(2) of the Act requires it to issue an application for a placement order. If this decision is made before any care proceedings are commenced, the local authority has the option of applying for a placement order alone, but it will usually be preferable to apply for both a care and a placement order. If this were done, then although the care order will not have effect while the placement order is in force, it would remain in force if the placement order were subsequently revoked. In the case of Re P-B (A Child) [2006] EWCA Civ 1016 the court makes clear that it is not permissible to issue the placement order application before the decision-maker has decided that the child should be placed for adoption. For further guidance on the issue of care proceedings in these circumstances, see the guidance to the Children Act 1989 (Volume 1 Court Orders). 8.16. It is essential that the child’s social worker, the agency adviser to the adoption panel and the local authority’s legal advisers, work closely