The latest study of Serious Case Reviews has produced a more accurate estimate of the number of children dying each year
as a result of maltreatment.
Eighty five children die as a result of violence or other maltreatment each year.
The study also found that a smaller proportion of children
dying in this way during the period 2009-2011 were babies, compared with the
period 2007-2009 (36% compared with 46%).
