Bichard report

The Bichard report or Bichard inquiry is a public inquiry into child protection, which was produced after the subsequent media attention around the Soham murders, where two young girls were murdered.

The inquiry was started in 2003; Michael Bichard was to lead it. He said there should be a system where anyone working with children should be vetted before working with them. This report was published in 2004. This report was in connection to how someone like Ian Huntley, who was convicted of the Soham murders in 2003, was able to work in a school, and how this could be avoided in the future.

The key reconsiderations were:

The main thing that has come from the Bichard report is CRB checks, making it possible to check each person for any previous crimes.

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