When children's minister Margaret Hodge told social services departments in February to review cases of children placed in care because their parents could harm them, she hoped it would solve the issues thrown up by the Angela Cannings case.
But four months on, this review has led to bitter recriminations from lawyers, parents and politicians who all claim that it is fatally flawed.
They are angry that social services have been asked to investigate their own case files and are calling on the children's minister to instigate an independent review.
The campaigners fear the system of self-appraisal will mean many cases that should be reopened remain hidden in local authority filing cabinets.
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