These statistics are important because they demonstrate statistically that the UK's "Child Protection" systems don't actually protect children from dying as a result of child abuse. We used to be better than the Old EU (pre 2004) average, but are now worse.

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• Stats on deaths of babies from child abuse
• Stats on deaths of babies generally

• Scottish 5 year destination analysis and comparison to England
• 1995 Source and Destination Stats only available this year
• First into care
• Summary Adoptions
• First taken into care in 2006
• Scottish Destination Statistics
• Welsh Adoption from care
• England, Wales, Scotland comparison for 2006 adoptions from care
• Thresholds analysis from Government Report
• Hammersmith babies for adoption tracking FoI
• Source and Destination 2004-6 to 2007

Adoption Targets:

• Adoptions by year analysed by when children were first taken into care.