EAO v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 303 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Church on 8 September 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 18 September 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Judges: Church, TH
• Decision date: 8 September 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-000235-V.

Judicial Summary

This case is about proportionality. Following the approach confirmed by the Presidential Panel of the Upper Tribunal in KS v Disclosure and Barring Service [2025] UKUT 45 (AAC), we considered for ourselves whether DBS’s decision to place the Appellant’s name on Adults’ Barred List was proportionate, given the factual findings it had made, which the Appellant had accepted.

We decided that the DBS’s decision was proportionate and therefore dismissed the appeal.

Published 18 September 2025