The European Conference on Shaken Baby Syndrome was supported by a range of organisations including the police, the NSPCC, and the Royal Society of Medicine, and sponsored by the American agency the National Centre on Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Labour member of the European Parliament Catherine Stihler told the conference that while some babies were deliberately shaken to death, others died by accident and that some babies died due to the actions of 'tired or frustrated parents and carers who don't know any better'.
She called for a public awareness campaign to stress how vulnerable young babies were to shaking, and said that incidences of SBS are 'too often not recognised in hospitals and the death is not logged as being caused by shaking'.
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