ocal authority to be able to supply up-to-date information about the child’s current situation, including their views and wishes, and the progress on finding and making a suitable placement. Where a parent has applied for leave or has made a substantive application for revocation and the prospective adopter is unwilling to await the outcome of the application, every effort should be made to ensure that the case is heard as quickly as possible. In the meantime the prospective adopter will need to be given support, and it may be appropriate for them to be offered independent legal advice. 8.19. If leave is granted for the parent’s application for revocation, the child’s welfare throughout their life will be the court’s paramount consideration in determining that application. The child will be a party to the application and will be entitled to be legally represented, and a children’s guardian will be appointed. If the application is successful, any care order made before or at the same time as the placement order will have effect, unless separately discharged, and the local authority will therefore need to revise the care plan for the child. 133 Application by the local authority or the child 8.20. The local authority or the child, without the leave of the court, may make an application for revocation of a placement order. Where the local authority decides that the child should no longer be placed for adoption following a review under AAR36, the local authority must revise the child’s care plan and apply to the court for revocation of the placement order, thus ensuring the accuracy of the child’s legal status. 8.21. There is no requirement in the AAR for the adoption panel to consider this change of plan, but it is good practice to ensure that the adoption panel is kept in