In a wide-ranging exclusive interview with CYP Now, Shoesmith said the policy would fail to meet its objective of boosting transparency and confidence in the child protection system.
Speaking two years after her dramatic sacking by the then Children's Secretary Ed Balls, she said: "The coalition has chosen to publish them ... I think the impact of it will be that the detail will find itself in the internal management reports [conducted by individual agencies] that aren't published, so the overview report will be a more benign document."
She said the second serious case review into Peter Connelly's case — ordered by Balls after the first was judged "inadequate" — "was commissioned by the Secretary of State to find the evidence to sack the social workers." Shoesmith added: "The conduct of the police and health was airbrushed."
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