Mothers of children who die of abuse are often isolated from local communities and relatives, with the rate of such deaths higher when women are subjected to domestic violence, a government panel has found.

In the wake of recent cases of fatal child abuse, the welfare ministry panel of experts looked closely at all such cases from January 2007 to March 2018, searching for links between child abuse and spousal abuse.

It was the first time that the panel has released such findings.