THE independent inquiry report into the health care of Rabina Hashim, the mentally-disturbed Burnley mother who killed her baby by throwing her into the canal, will today be presented to health bosses in private. .

But East Lancashire Health Authority, which ordered the investigation, say findings will not be made public for at least a month.

A spokesman for the authority, which will receive the draft document at its monthly meeting in Nelson, said the report would first go to other interested parties for comment before being made public .

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

It has been 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, reported earlier this year and was highly critical of several important aspects of the care provided for the infant.