The claim was made by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in its new report, Out of Sight, which gives accounts of 100 children who died from injuries at the hands of their parents or carers between 1973 and 2000. Contributors to the report considered the need to improve the diagnosis and investigation of all child deaths, to learn lessons from child abuse tragedies, and to introduce wide-sweeping reforms to protect children.
The report follows an independent inquiry last month into the death of eight-year-old Anna Climbie. She was neglected and tortured by her carers, great-aunt Marie Therase Kouao and Carl Manning, who have been jailed for life for her murder.
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