Huntley murdered 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman
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Three inquiries are under way into how Ian Huntley was allowed to work with children despite past claims of rape and underage sex.
He was found guilty of the murders of Soham schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman on Wednesday.
One inquiry will examine the vetting procedures that allowed Huntley to get a school caretaker job.
The police and social services are both carrying out investigations into their roles in the case.
Huntley was given two life sentences at the Old Bailey for the murders.
His mother Lynda Nixon said she thought he had "flipped" following an argument with his girlfriend Maxine Carr.
"He flipped and did this terrible thing," she told the Sun on Thursday.
Carr, 26, was given three-and-a-half years for conspiring to pervert the course of justice but cleared of two counts of assisting an offender.
BBC News has learnt that serious concerns remain about the system for checking the backgrounds of people working in schools.
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PREVIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IAN HUNTLEY
One of indecent assault
Four of underage sex
Three of rape - one resulted in a charge
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A leaked report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary says many police forces are failing to enter details of convictions and arrests into the national police computer within the required time limit.
As a result, someone with Huntley's background could still be recruited by an education authority.
BBC correspondent James Westhead, who has seen the confidential report which was commissioned by the Home Office in light of the girls' murders, says it concludes that the situation is "getting worse".
"The report says: 'There is the potential for known offenders or those suspected of serious offending to be overlooked during the Criminal Review Bureau checks.'
"The reason for this, it says, is that police are failing to put convictions into the national computer in time."
He said the report had found that, on average, it was taking forces 50 days to input details of a conviction rather than the week it should take.
The President of the Police Superintendents' Association, Kevin Morris, said there was confusion about what records should be kept by forces.
This had led to the policy being interpreted in different ways by different forces, with some "weeding out" more information than others.
David Hart, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said schools had to be confident that background checks are thorough.
"There are people who would be worried about information going which would perhaps breach people's rights but we have to worry about the greater good here."
Ray Wyre, a leading expert in the study of child sex abuse, told BBC News there were loopholes in the system which would allow even convicted offenders to get jobs where they would have contact with children.
"A man who sexually abuses all his children will not be prosecuted in the criminal courts for many reasons and will instead go to the family court where a judge will make a finding against him - it would be unusual for that information to get back to the Criminal Review Bureau."
As well as the inquiry ordered by Home Secretary David Blunkett, there will be a separate police review of the investigation and a case review by social services involved with Huntley in the past.
The three inquiries will focus on:
- Effectiveness of intelligence and vetting by Cambridgeshire and Humberside forces into previous allegations against Huntley
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Findings of a Metropolitan Police review into the early part of the Soham criminal investigation by Cambridgeshire Police
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Case review into how agencies in north-east Lincolnshire fulfilled their duties to protect children
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There are people who would be worried about information...which would perhaps breach people's rights but we have to worry about the greater good here
