The tragic deaths of Baby P and Victoria Climbie are to come under the spotlight again with the release of a report into whether enough is being done to protect vulnerable children.
Lord Laming will announce the findings of a review into whether all councils in England have adopted reforms introduced after his landmark inquiry into failings in the Climbie case.
Children's Secretary Ed Balls ordered the audit at the end of the trial of those responsible for 17-month-old Baby P's death in August 2007.
He asked Lord Laming to carry out an urgent nationwide review of child welfare services in the light of the authorities' failure to save the little boy's life.
Baby P, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was on the child protection register when he died at the hands of his mother, her abusive boyfriend and their lodger.
He had suffered more than 50 injuries despite receiving 60 visits from social workers, doctors and police over an eight-month period.
Haringey Council in north London was heavily criticised over both the Baby P and Climbie cases.
Lord Laming said after the Baby P trial it was "dispiriting" that the same local authority was involved again.
Victoria Climbie was eight when she died in February 2000 having suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her great-aunt and her boyfriend. Victoria had been beaten for months, had 128 separate injuries and died from malnutrition and hypothermia after being forced to sleep in a bath.
The public inquiry chaired by Lord Laming heard Victoria could have been saved on 12 separate occasions if the relevant services had intervened.
