Child Protection Organizations (CPOs) safe guard the children who are in need of care and protection and the prime stakeholders are children. With an intension to understand the field realities the parents of such children are approached through Focused Group Discussion (FGD) to get their expressions in order to have an observation on challenges, accessibility and safety in such organizations. Access to the services for welfare, safety and protection are done in a satisfactory way. The parents also expressed that there are certain challenging areas require immediate attention. Among them is lack of scope for higher education and bullying by inmates of the organization. Another sensitive challenging area is that parents expressed fear that the girl inmates may be susceptible to be abused. More over there is an amount of discrimination exist among the inmates in terms of caste, skin colour, region, sex, background which need to be curtailed through intervention programmes.

Key words: Challenges, safety, abuse, neglect, accessibility