formance against these timescales and make this information available in its six-monthly reports under the National Minimum Standards 25.6. 33 Planning for permanence 2.4. A local authority will need to consider a child’s needs for permanence when that child is about to be relinquished for adoption or who is looked after, either because the child is being voluntarily accommodated, is the subject of an interim care order under the Children Act 1989 (the 1989 Act), or care proceedings have been initiated. An appropriate permanence plan should be identified no later than at the second statutory review – the four-month review. This review should consider all the options for best meeting the child's welfare, including the child's needs for permanence – see the Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 and associated guidance. Fostering for Adoption 2.5. Fostering for Adoption (FfA) is about those cases where a child is placed with carers who are both approved adopters and approved foster carers. It is a fostering placement under the Children Act 1989 but which may lead to adoption by those foster carers, where it is decided that adoption is the plan for the child and either the court agrees to make a placement order, or parental consent to adoption is given. The advantage of this type of placement is that the child will be able to be placed much earlier with foster carers who are likely to go on to become the child’s adoptive family. There is substantial evidence of the serious long-term effects on children, especially those under-two who from birth did not receive sensitive, committed and stable care from their primary carer. 2.6. There may be cases where a local authority identifies that, based on the evidence available and on its assessment of th