THE findings of an independent inquiry into the health care of Rabina Hashim, the mentally-disturbed Burnley mother who killed her baby by throwing her into the canal, will be made public next month.

The inquiry report will first be discussed in private by members of the East Lancashire Health Authority at a meeting at their Nelson headquarters on December 19.

It is expected that details will be made public the next day.

The inquiry was set up in January after Hashim was ordered to be detained indefinitely by a Preston Crown Court judge for the manslaughter of her four months-old daughter, Emma Jade Dyson, in March last year.

She had a history of mental disorder and had been released from hospital just weeks before the tragedy.

Emma Jade died after being put into the Leeds and Liverpool canal by her mum who then told police that the baby had been taken from Burnley town centre.

The baby's body was recovered from the canal near Westgate close the family's homer off Accrington Road.

The independent inquiry was asked to investigate all aspects of the care and treatment provided for Hashim.

It was chaired by William D Greenwood, former regional chairman of the East Midlands and North West Mental Health Review Tribunal.

A separate social services inquiry by the Area Child Protection into circumstances surrounding the death of the baby, who was on a social services care register before she was born, was made public earlier this year.

It was highly critical of several important aspects of the care provided for the infant.