FR -v- Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 219 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 1 July 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 15 August 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Adults’ barred list
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 1 July 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2022-000763-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(b) – appeal on mistake of fact – Upper Tribunal heard oral evidence and made its own assessment of evidence – material mistakes of fact – appeal allowed and case remitted to Disclosure and Barring Service for new decision to be made.

Published 15 August 2025