mes that support carers to improve their knowledge and skills to provide better standards of love, care and support. 52 • Every area supports children and young people to articulate their views, including through access to independent advocacy (with services available to support those with communication difficulties), so they are aware of their right to advocacy and know what to do and who to talk to if they are unhappy or if they do not feel listened to. Advocacy services meet the National Standards for the Provision of Children’s Advocacy Services. • Every area supports kinship carers to share their views and experiences to inform how local services are designed and delivered. • Every area supports foster carers and adopters to share their views and experiences on the services they have accessed, to inform how they are designed and delivered. How senior leaders should achieve this outcome in practice • Leaders champion corporate parenting and act as corporate parents themselves, working with partner agencies to create a culture where everyone is ambitious to be the best ‘parent’ for children in care and care leavers, asking themselves whether the services and support provided for children in care and care leavers would be good enough for their own child. Leaders draw on the services of the whole local authority and partners agencies, to provide the best possible support for them to thrive. • Leaders commission services in such a way that all those providing care or support for children and young people, including disabled children, work to the best standards of care, hold the highest aspirations for the lives of children and young people and work towards meeting the outcomes within the National Framework. • Leaders undertake sufficiency planning and work with other lo