This toolkit provides helpful solutions for organisations and practitioners working across development and humanitarian sectors on how to plan for disability-inclusive child safeguarding programmes.
Each tool provided shows how to include children with disabilities within programmes, this is important as it is essential they identify, monitor, and build into the programme design risks that children with disabilities may experience as a result of engaging in activities or programmes.
This tool is designed to help practitioners working with children with disabilities. Using participatory approaches, 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 they 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 they identify, monitor, and build into the programme design risks that children with disabilities may experience as a result of engaging in activities or programmes.
Who is this for what it will offer you?
This tool is for all organisations who work with children, it should complement existing risk assessments ensuring a disability lens is applied to all risk assessments. Even if your target audience is not be children with disabilities, all practitioners who work with children will come into contact with children with disabilities.
The tool contains:
- a short question and answer section,
- a disability-inclusive risk assessment template containing practical examples and
- guidance on risk ratings
For the purpose of this tool they are looking at activity/project/programme risk assessments.
- Discuss & identify risks – with children with disabilities, parents and caregivers and organisations of persons with disabilities
- Develop risk mitigation strategies – with children with disabilities, parents and caregivers and organisations of persons with disabilities
- Implement risk mitigations – with parents and caregivers and organisations of persons with disabilities
- Learning informs practice – listening and learning from children with disabilities is the best way to safeguard them
You can download this toolkit for free here.
