The government has strongly criticised a report that said a four-year-old boy starved to death after being let down by "national systems".
Hamzah Khan's decomposed body was found in his Bradford home in 2011, almost two years after he died.
His mother Amanda Hutton, 43, was jailed for 15 years last month after being found guilty of manslaughter.
Children's Minister Edward Timpson said he had "deep concerns" about the serious case review.
He said it "fails to explain sufficiently clearly the actions taken, or not taken, by children's social care when problems in the Khan family were brought to their attention on a number of occasions".
'Glaring absences'Mr Timpson demanded that Bradford's Safeguarding Children Board answer 10 key questions he said were missing from the report.
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He said the answers to the "glaring absences" from the review must be made public to "ensure such mistakes will not be repeated in the future".
Professor Nick Frost, chairman of Bradford Safeguarding Children Board, said the review was "very clear that Hamzah's death could not have been predicted".
He said it found that systems - "many of them national systems" - let Hamzah down "both before and following his death".
He added: "I cannot give assurance that a tragedy like this will never happen again."
Responding to comments from Mr Timpson, Kath Tunstall, strategic director of children's services in Bradford, said there "was absolutely no attempt to whitewash".
"We are determined to improve, we are constantly wanting to learn and improve.
"If the minister is going to assist us with that by asking more challenging questions then we welcome that."
The report said a "theme" of the case review was "the extent to which Hamzah was unknown and invisible to services throughout his short life".
It added that Hamzah was "invisible to services largely because neither of his parents participated in the routine processes".
The NSPCC's head of policy David Tucker said: "I have never heard before in any serious case review of a child being so completely lost."
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