ore information on the new regulation please see: http://www.education.gov.uk/childrenandyoungpeople/families/adoption/a006 5502/care-planning Concurrent Planning 2.9. Concurrent planning is a form of contingency planning first used in England in the late 1990s, and is a well-known practice for placing children with dually approved carers. It involves placing a looked after child with approved foster carers who, as well as providing temporary care for the child, bring them to regular supervised contact sessions with their parents and other relatives. In addition, the carer may spend time with the parents at both ends of contact sessions to update them on the child’s progress. This enables a relationship to develop which is supportive to the parents. The agency provides focussed support via a contact supervisor whose role is to advise the parents to help them to change their lifestyle and improve their parenting skills with the aim of enabling their child to return home to them. If this is the outcome, the child will have maintained contact with their parents and have sustained their attachment because of the regular contact visits. But the carers are also approved as adopters so that if the parents’ rehabilitation plan is not successful, the child may be placed with the carers for adoption, ensuring a continuity of attachment. 2.10. Concurrent planning is not the same as practices often known as parallel or twin track planning. In these cases the child remains with their parents or is placed with temporary foster carers while a rehabilitation plan is implemented. At the same time an alternative plan for permanence is developed, which would usually involve a different set of carers, to ensure that it is available as soon as it is clear that rehabilitation is not going to