VMAC v Disclosure & Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 228 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Butler on 9 July 2025.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 8 August 2025

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Mistake on point of law
• Judges: Butler, J
• Decision date: 9 July 2025

                                                                                                                                                                                                            Read the full decision in <span id="attachment_1432c7ae-ab6a-4255-b162-8e613a6fdbea" class="attachment-inline"><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6896041aa6eb81a3f9b2e2c8/UA-2023-001736-V.pdf" >UA-2023-001736-V</a></span>                                                                                   

Judicial Summary

The Disclosure and Barring Service’s (DBS’s) Barring Decision involved a mistake of fact on which the Barring decision was based and material mistakes of law. Remitted to the DBS to make a fresh decision.

Published 8 August 2025