NAC v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 304 (AAC)

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

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 29 September 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Proportionality
• Judges: Jacobs, E
• Decision date: 8 September 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001791-V.

Judicial Summary

Summary: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.8 – Proportionality)

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(a) – limited case put to Upper Tribunal – Upper Tribunal considered for itself whether decision was proportionate and decided that it was.

Summary: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.9 – Finding of fact)

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(b) – Upper Tribunal heard evidence from appellant and made its own assessment of the evidence as a whole – no mistake found.

Published 29 September 2025