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Sarah McCarthy-Fry: All the partners are accountable for agreeing and implementing their plan. The individual partners are responsible and accountable for delivering their part of the plan. That is why they have to produce an annual report. That annual report will have to set out how the implementation of the plan has been delivered. As I said in answer to a previous question, their activities can be inspected under sections 20 to 22 of the Children Act. If there are any concerns, there is the eventual power of the Secretary of State to intervene on a local authority if the plan either does not exist or is not being implemented properly.