HET v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 403 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Monk on 4 December 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 23 December 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: 4 December 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001182-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006. The Upper Tribunal made its own assessment of the evidence of a whole and found wide ranging mistakes of fact in Disclosure and Barring Service’s findings. Appeal allowed and appellant removed from both Children’s and adults’ Barred lists.

Published 23 December 2025