Dependency on a wide network of carers and other adults is the everyday experience of some disabled children in order that their medical and intimate care needs such as bathing and toileting can be met. The large number of adults involved and the nature of the care needs both increase the risk of exposure to abusive behaviour and make it more difficult to set and maintain physical boundaries. Some disabled children grow up to accept damaging, demeaning or over restricting treatment from others because they have never known anything more positive.44 There is also the possibility that disabled children may be schooled into accepting others having access to their bodies. Child protection enquiries and action planning need to take into account that a disabled child may be dependent on an abuser for personal care and/or for communication assistance. They may be less able to tell someone what is going on because of this dependency. (Source: National working Group on Child Protection and Disability. It doesn’t happen to disabled children NSPCC 2003, as cited by Gov.uk, July 2009)