The system for investigating child deaths stands accused of failing to protect parents from wrongful arrest and not identifying where children are at risk.
Sally Clark and Angela Cannings were imprisoned for killing their babies, before the Court of Appeal found both their convictions were unsafe after further evidence proved their children died from cot deaths.
Concerns were so strong that, even before Angela Cannings' appeal hearing, a working group of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and the Royal College of Pathologists was set up to investigate the issue.
A year and a half later, the inquiry, chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy, has called for health authorities to implement a national protocol to standardise their approaches.
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