SLS v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 129 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Jacobs on 14 April 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 14 May 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Proportionality
• Judges: Jacobs, E
• Decision date: 14 April 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-000745-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 - section 4(2)(a) – the Upper Tribunal made its own assessment of the evidence as a whole – no mistake of fact identified in Disclosure and Barring Service’s findings – section 4(2)(b) – proportionality – the Upper Tribunal assessed for itself the proportionality of DBS’s decision – no mistake of law identified – DBS’s decision confirmed.

Published 14 May 2025