Secret report reveals another Baby P blunder

Baby P's mother named her violent partner as her next of kin on an official form but authorities still failed to realise he was living with her, a previously secret report has revealed.

The toddler's social worker was told Tracey Connelly had a boyfriend but did not ask who he was or request to meet him, according to a damning serious case review into the tragedy.

Baby P - now named as Peter Connelly - was just 17 months old when he died in Tottenham, north London, at the hands of his mother, her abusive partner Steven Barker and his brother, Jason Owen, in August 2007.

He suffered more than 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over an eight-month period.

A second report, commissioned after the first was judged by Ofsted to be "inadequate", was scathing about social workers' failure to quiz Peter's mother about her boyfriend.

It said: "It would have been interesting to know whether Ms A (Connelly) would have refused the information and what it was thought to signify. She was not asked."

The case reviews were published in full following pledges by Tory and Lib Dem politicians.