application be issued without delay. The local authority’s legal advisers should be kept fully up to date with developments so that the application can be made quickly. It is important that adoption agencies coordinate their actions with the court proceedings. 129 Making the application 8.6. Applications for placement orders are made by submitting form A50 to the court. This should be completed by or with the advice and assistance of the local authority legal adviser. It is important that up-to-date details are included in the form. To avoid delays in court proceedings, it is vital that agencies keep in touch with the parent or guardian, for example through the independent support worker, so that their current address(es) is known. If their current whereabouts are not known, it will be necessary to provide details to the court of the attempts made to locate them and the date when any address was last known to be current. In the majority of cases, the application for a placement order will be made with or during the course of an application for a care order under section 31 of the 1989 Act. In this case, the application will of course be made to the court hearing the care proceedings. A freestanding application may be made to any family proceedings court or to a county court, which is an adoption centre. In some circumstances, it may be appropriate to make the application to the court, which has made any existing care order unless this was made by a county court, which is not an adoption centre (see Allocation and Transfer of Proceedings Order 2008). 8.7. Form A50 sets out the documents that will need to be filed with the application. The report prepared in accordance with Rule 14.11 and in accordance with Practice Direction 14C of the Rules should be included. It is not