Children's charity Barnardo's is among the organisations that have written to the Home Office arguing that checks should be extended to IT staff because they could use their technical knowledge to obtain information for paedophile purposes.
Bob Cook, standards and risks manager at Barnardo's, said this was now the main question colleagues raised with him in relation to the CRB. "We've made representations about this and I'm sure others have done the same," he said. "In a digital age, it's not just a question of looking at people who have direct access to children. We also have to think about people who have access to information about children."
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