Uni Assignment - Desperately in need of some advice/help!

[Lazylou]

This might be a sensitive subject to some, so I apologise in advance.

I have to compile a report for Uni about a case of child abuse which resulted in the death of the child. Trust me, I'm not looking forward to writing it, nor researching it. I was wondering whether it would be possible to obtain the inquest report for the child to use in my research and if so, how I would go about doing this?

Hence the place I am posting this, because I believe it would be a legal matter?

I know this is not a nice subject, so again I apologise, but I could really do with a shove in the right direction on this one.

Thanks in advance.

why dont you get a copy of the laming report into victoria climbies death?

I have read through that and taken some notes, but the case I am looking at happened after Victoria Climbie's death and I wanted to compare what was said at the time about changing children's services etc, to the changes that had/had not taken place at the time of this case I am looking at.

It sounds horrible (and it is) but I need to know some details as to the child's injuries and the official outcome of the inquest. I have to reference to it, so I'm hoping it will be possible to see it.

Thanks for your reply though, I didn't imagine I would get any what with the nature of the question.

I would get your tutor's advice on whether it is essential or not to cite the inquest report as a primary source.
Given the sensitive nature of these documents I'd be surprised if they were released to the general public, fee or no fee, because of the data protection implications.