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You could imagine, could you not, that in certain areas, or at certain times, the core team may well decide that it has a particular need to draw on the expertise of other agencies. For example, in Warwickshire, multi-agency working on child protection has been strengthened by collocation with probation and youth justice teams. The regulations will designate the relevant agencies that can be required to work with the safeguarding partners to support the teams, and then the partners will be able to identify from that list the relevant agencies appropriate for their local area and enter into a memorandum with them. We are confident that setting out agencies in regulations achieves the intention of this amendment while maintaining flexibility in local delivery.