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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 in Cambridgeshire by the local college caretaker Ian Huntley.
The Bichard report was published on 22 June 2004 and made 31 recommendations, of which recommendation 19 called for a new registration scheme and stated: "New arrangements should be introduced requiring those who wish to work with children, or vulnerable adults, to be registered. This register – perhaps supported by a card or licence ...
The Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (c. 47) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.It was created following the UK Government accepting recommendation 19 of the inquiry headed by Sir Michael Bichard, which was set up in the wake of the Soham Murders.
The PVGS was introduced in response to the Bichard report which was undertaken after the Soham murders in 2002. [6] As recommended by the report the scheme involves continuous updating into its checks. It came into full force in February 2011. [7]
David Westwood, QPM, is a British former police officer.He was Chief Constable of Humberside Police from March 1999 until March 2005. In 2004, he was suspended from July until September as a result of the Bichard report into the Soham murders.
List 99 (also known as the Children’s Barred List [1] [better source needed] and, later, as information held under Section 142 of the Education Act 2002 [2]) was a controversial, [3] confidential register of people barred from working with children by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) In the United Kingdom. [4]
Michael George Bichard, Baron Bichard KCB (born 31 January 1947) is a former public servant in the United Kingdom, first in local and then as a civil servant in central government. He was director of the Institute for Government , currently serves as one of its first fellows, and was chair of the Design Council .
Delivery of the PND (Police National Database) was the first recommendation of the Bichard report. Contractor Logica was awarded a contract of £75M to build and deliver the PND in 2007, but this was not commenced until May 2010 when the first forces began to load their data on to the new system.