An inquiry has been launched to see what lessons can be learned from the suicides of Lisa Utton and Danielle Waddington.
Both were known to social services and mental health workers but the girls still threw themselves to their deaths from a Southend tower block.
A group of experts from social services in Essex and Southend, the health service, police and probation officers are carrying out a serious case review. It will seek to determine whether anything could have been done to prevent the deaths of Lisa, 18, from Rochford, and Danielle, 16, from Wickford.
A spokesman for South Essex Partnership NHS Trust said: "The investigation will bring all social services together to prevent a position where they do not know what each other are doing.
"The investigating body is powerful because it can cut across organisational boundaries and can make powerful recommendations.
"Inquiries are still on-going and there is no scheduled date for reporting back as yet. Some of the findings will be available to the public."
Recording a verdict of suicide at the girls' inquest in Southend, coroner Peter Dean, said: "We have to ask what lessons could be learned, but no one could have foreseen the utterly unusual, unique and unexpected outcome of that night."
Published Friday March 5, 2004
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