Disability-inclusive child safeguarding guidelines by Save the Children and Able Child Africa
Disability-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
