AB v Disclosure & Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 238 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Citron on 14 July 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 1 August 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact
• Judges: Citron, Z
• Decision date: 14 July 2025

                                                                                                                                                                                                         Read the full decision in <span id="attachment_eabc419e-981e-4766-b220-54cdf83eb630" class="attachment-inline"><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688cb70fa34b939141463e56/UA-2024-000991-V.pdf" >UA-2024-000991-V</a></span>                                                                             

Judicial Summary

This was an appeal against factual findings by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) about certain incidents that took place when the appellant worked as a support worker at a nursing home and, later, when she was employed by a charity supporting people with learning disabilities. Having considered both the oral evidence of the appellant at the hearing, and the documentary evidence before it, the Upper Tribunal decided that there was no material error in DBS’s factual findings, and so dismissed the appeal.

Published 1 August 2025