PEO v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 302 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Citron on 5 September 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 17 October 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact
• Judges: Citron, Z
• Decision date: 5 September 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-001132-V.

Judicial Summary

This appeal centred on events in an assisted living home where the appellant worked as a night support worker, over three days in April 2023. The Upper Tribunal found that the Disclosure and Barring Service had made mistakes in findings of fact about the appellant’s interactions with service users in the course of those incidents, and that those mistaken findings were material to the Disclosure and Barring Service’s decisions to include the appellant in the barred lists. The Upper Tribunal accordingly allowed the appeal and remitted the matter to the Disclosure and Barring Service for a new decision.

Published 17 October 2025