As children's commissioner, I often find myself surrounded by adults talking to other adults about how adults should do things for children.
This is inevitable and often important, but what focuses minds is when we are informed by asking children directly.
With my particular focus on children in care, it is even more vital we hear from them, as too often they've been the least heard.
We have interviewed a number of teenagers with specific experiences of the care system for a new series of podcasts for our website IMO - a peer-led website for children in care and care leavers.
Frank, direct and powerful, they expose the lived reality of the concerns we have about the level and nature of the support we as a society offer them. Here is a summary of what they talk about.
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