In June, Loughton told CYP Now that the government would publish in full the serious case reviews of Baby Peter, Khyra Ishaq, the Edlington brothers and Shannon Matthews.
But addressing the Education Select Committee this week, he revealed that there were concerns about one of the cases which may prevent its full publication.
Responding to a question posed by committee member and Liberal Democrat MP Tessa Munt, Loughton said: "We said [the reviews] should be published subject to anonymisation, appropriate redaction and subject to there being no threat to the welfare of a surviving child or siblings.
"There may be examples in the future where local safeguarding children boards can make an argument as to why a serious case review should not be published in full. One of the retrospective reports we are looking to have published at the moment may come under that bracket and if it does it won’t be published."
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