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Safeguarding disabled children guidance

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. A child first
  3. Increased vulnerability
  4. Indicators
  5. Barriers to communicating abuse
  6. Protection and action to be taken
  7. Capacity and consent
  8. Issues
  9. Resources for practitioners

Resources for practitioners

Gateshead resources

Gateshead's advocacy offer for children and young peopleĀ 

Gateshead Safeguarding Children Partnership

National resources 

  • UK social work practice in safeguarding disabled children and young people: a qualitative systematic review 
  • Caring more than most: a profile of UK families caring for disabled children
  • Deaf and disabled children: learning from case reviews (summary of risk factors and learning for improved practice when working with deaf and disabled children) 
  • Safeguarding d/Deaf and disabled children and young people 
  • Ofsted thematic inspection: protecting disabled children 
  • Safeguarding disabled children: practice guidance
  • Social relationships - voice of the customer report July 2024 
  • The unseen experiences of blind and partially sighted victims of domestic abuse 
  • Working together to safeguard children 2026
  • Harris J, Keil S, Lord C and McManus S, 2012. Sight impaired at age seven: Secondary analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study. RLSB, RNIB and NatCen Social Research
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