What will early years workers make of the outcome of the Attorney General's review of almost 300 child-killing cases? Many will be wondering: what outcome?
The review was promised by children's minister Margaret Hodge and prompted by the release of Angela Cannings, who was jailed after being convicted of killing her babies.
Some reckoned the review could yield hundreds or even thousands of appeals against criminal convictions for killing children and a Daily Telegraph columnist described the review as 'the greatest single volte face in the history of the British judicial system'.
This was a crisis: these cases come from a revolution in our knowledge about life-threatening events in childhood. But unlike research into the great diseases, these revelations concern not plagues but people - parents.
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