ell as for any changes to those arrangements over time. Any time after the first three years from the date of an order when the child is an agency adoptive child 9.22. Where the three-year period following the making of the adoption order has expired, the local authority where the adoptive family lives will have the responsibility for assessing and providing adoption support services. It is essential that there is good communication and advance planning between the placing authority and the local authority where the family lives to ensure that there is no break in the provision of services. To assist with this, the placing authority may wish to make use of the power under ASR 7.3 to provide services for a transitional period. Liaison between local authorities 9.23. Liaison between different local authorities will be especially important where two or more children have been placed with the same adoptive parent but by different placing authorities. In these circumstances, more than one authority may have a duty to assess and provide support services (both to the parent and to the children, arising from the duty owed to the ‘other children’ of the adoptive parent under ASR 4) and should co-operate with each other to ensure that services are provided in a consistent and co-ordinated way. 172 Placement outside of England and Wales 9.24. Where the child is to be placed, or moves, outside England and Wales, it should be borne in mind that, even within the UK, the duties of local authorities to provide adoption support are not the same as those set out under the Act and the relevant English and Welsh regulations. Each case will need to be considered according to its own circumstances, but placing local authorities may need to make use of the powers under ASR 7.3 to continue to 