SZ v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 372 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Hansen on 30 October 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 19 November 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Proportionality
• Judges: Hansen, W
• Decision date: 30 October 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2022-000957-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 – section 4(2)(a) – Appellant’s case was that barring order was disproportionate because a less intrusive measure was available in the form of an order from another regulator – Upper Tribunal considered for itself whether decision was proportionate and decided it was.

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.9 – Findings of Fact)

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 – section 4(2)(b) – Appellant challenged a number of the findings of fact made by the DBS on which its decision was based – Upper Tribunal assessed the evidence, including limited new evidence, and found no material mistakes.

Published 19 November 2025