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Finally, Amendment 506C, also in the name of the noble Lord, seeks to delay the commencement of these clauses until the Secretary of State has published an evaluation of the current regional care co-operative pathfinders. He also raised a point about local government reorganisation. I can assure the noble Lord—I think he raised this in a previous question as well—that my colleagues in the MHCLG assured me that important transitional arrangements are in place during local government reorganisation to enable key functions such as these with respect to children to continue. I also point out that the whole point about regional care co-operatives is that they aim to make things easier for local authorities by pooling some of the necessary arrangements.