Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, who chaired the independent inquiry into infant deaths, called on children's minister Margaret Hodge to lead statutory implementation of the report's recommendations at its launch this week.
The report of the working group, set up by the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, called for health authorities to implement a national protocol.
This would require a paediatrician, working with police, to visit the place of death and take a complete medical history within 24 hours. It also recommended that a post-mortem examination should be done by a specialist paediatric pathologist, followed by a multi-agency meeting to provide a report for the coroner and plan further support for families.
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