Mrs B v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2026] UKUT 14 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Citron on 09 January 2026.
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Judicial Summary
The factual basis for the Appellant having been included in the children’s barred list was that she had had a conversation with her then-husband in which he derived sexual gratification from her telling him things about children in her care. Having heard oral evidence from the Appellant (which the Disclosure and Barring Service had not), who denied the “bedroom conversation” ever took place, and having reviewed the documentary evidence on which the Disclosure and Barring Service had relied and found it to be unreliable in material respects, the Upper Tribunal decided that the Disclosure and Barring Service had made a material factual mistake. The appeal was allowed and the Appellant ordered removed from the barred list (the only decision that could lawfully have been made, given that the “bedroom conversation” never happened).