Disability-inclusive child safeguarding guidelines by Save the Children and Able Child AfricaDisability-inclusive child
safeguarding means that
this approach, as applied by
organisations, is equally effective
for keeping children with disabilities
safe as it is in keeping children
without disabilities safe. These guidelines are for international
development and humanitarian actors
working with children, or representatives
of organisations of persons with
disabilities (OPDs) working in
development and humanitarian contexts.
The guidelines are written to ensure
relevance for disability-focused
organisations and the disability
movement, who may have strong systems
for disability inclusion but are in the
inception phase or improving their child
safeguarding systems. They also have
relevance for child rights organisations
or development and humanitarian
actors who may already have robust
child safeguarding systems but are only
beginning to mainstream disability in
their work |
Disability-inclusive child safeguarding toolkithttps://resourcecentre.savethechildren.net/pdf/disabiltiy-inclusive-child-safeguarding-toolkit.pdf/ This tool is designed to help practitioners working with children with disabilities. Using participatory approaches1, the tool helps to identify potential safeguarding risks and risk mitigation strategies to ensure all activities are safe and inclusive. Safe programming is not about mitigating all risks, all actions have risks and attempting to mitigate all risks may mean the programme will not go ahead. This is
particularly important when working with
children with disabilities as there may
be more risks and therefore, if we are
attempting to mitigate all risks there is a
greater chance that the activity will not go
ahead resulting in even less provision for
children with disabilities. However, it is
essential we identify, monitor, and build into
our programme design risks that children
with disabilities may experience as a result
of engaging in activities or programmes. |