The review criticised professionals for "lacking in urgency [and] lacking in thoroughness" in their duties to protect the child.
It said that if doctors, lawyers, police officers and social workers had adopted a more "urgent, thorough and challenging approach" the abuse of Baby P "would have been stopped in its tracks at the first serious incident".
Friday's review was ordered by children's secretary Ed Balls after the first review of the case was deemed "inadequate" by Ofsted.
It was carried out by Graham Badman, who was appointed chair of Haringey's Local Safeguarding Children Board in December.
Badman said that in light of the Baby P case, children's professionals should in the future be "deeply sceptical" of any justifications or excuses offered in connection with the apparent maltreatment of children.
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