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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

https://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.