CD v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 327 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Jacobs on 01 October 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 6 November 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Adequacy, Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Proportionality
• Judges: Jacobs, E
• Decision date: 1 October 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001003-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.8 – Proportionality) Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(a) – Upper Tribunal, having considered for itself whether decision was proportionate, decided that it was – Enhanced Criminal Record Certificate not a sufficient less intrusive measure.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.9 – Finding of fact) Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(b) – appellant alleged that she had acted in self-defence - Upper Tribunal, having heard evidence from appellant and made its own assessment of the evidence as a whole, found that she had not acted in self-defence.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.27 – Inadequacy) Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(a) – Upper Tribunal decided that DBS’s reasons were inadequate in dealing with the appellant’s insight and remorse given that she had been a victim of modern slavery.

Published 6 November 2025