BBC London's Tim Donovan:
With the publication of the two serious case reviews into Peter Connelly's death, people can now read for themselves what a complex story this was. The toddler had many contacts with many different agencies over his short life and self-evidently, given the outcome, their efforts failed.
But putting your finger on the fundamental underlying flaws is not as easy as you might think. And trying to establish a kind of hierarchy of blame is impossible, not to say simplistic.
Was it the doctors who failed to act on what they saw? Or the social workers who didn't stand back a moment and notice how things were deteriorating? Or the police who didn't regard this case as quite serious enough for them? Or the council lawyers who in the end weren't convinced it was one for care proceedings?
A cool-headed unraveling of a tangled, tragic tale. Now read on.
