ZP v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2026] UKUT 373 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Mitchell on 23 September 2026.
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Judicial Summary
In certain barring cases, an individual will automatically be included in a barred list, maintained under the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006, if the individual fails duly to provide written representations against a proposed barring decision. In such cases, fairness requires the notice inviting representations (sometimes referred to as a ‘minded to bar’ letter) to enable the individual to make meaningful representations as the appropriateness of barring. This will often require DBS to give some indication as to why they are minded to find that barring is appropriate. In the present case, a notice that simply informed the Appellant that barring was proposed ‘because of your conviction information’ was insufficient.