GU v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 202 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Monk on 23 June 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 5 August 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Adults’ barred list and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Children’s barred list
• Judges: Monk, F
• Decision date: 23 June 2025

Read the full decision in UA_2023_000993_V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. The Upper Tribunal made its own assessment of the evidence of a whole and found no mistake of fact in the Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS’) findings and assessed proportionality and found no error of law. DBS’ decision confirmed.

Published 5 August 2025