Last year, a group chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy made a series of recommendations on the investigation of cot deaths in England and Wales in the wake of a series of mothers wrongly accused of killing their babies.
It called for a paediatrician, working with police, to visit the place of death and take a complete medical history within 24 hours, and for the post-mortem examination to be done by a specialist paediatric pathologist.
Moves are now underway to draw up guidelines in Scotland after the establishment of a steering group by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in Scotland, the Scottish Cot Death Trust and the Scottish Executive.
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