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Safeguarding disabled children - Practice guidance (2009)
This practice guidance from the DCSF (now DfE) should be read alongside Working Together, which sets out how all agencies and professionals should work together to safeguard and promote children’s welfare. It should also be read alongside the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families (2003), which provides a framework to assist in determining whether a child is in need under the Children Act 1989 and deciding how best to provide help.
This practice guidance makes clear that disabled children have exactly the same human rights to be safe from abuse and neglect, to be protected from harm and achieve the Every Child Matters outcomes as non-disabled children.
Disabled children do however require additional action. This is because they experience greater and created vulnerability as a result of negative attitude about disabled children and unequal access to services and resources, and because they may have additional needs relating to physical, sensory, cognitive and/ or communication impairments.
TSCB provide interagency training on Safeguarding Children with Disabilities
Tameside Children's Trust (formerly the Tameside Children & Young People's Strategic Partnership) publishes a Multi agency strategy for services for children with disabilities which can be accessed at the Children's Trust website, click here
This strategy sets out the vision for services for disabled children; it outlines the national context and local picture. The strategy also identifies the values and principles that underpin the strategy, the outcomes it strives to achieve and the structure required to deliver the outcomes.
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