[2025] UKUT 86 (AAC)

The appellant appeals under section 4 of the Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups Act 2006 (SVGA 2006) against the decision of the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) of 24 August 2021 including her in the children’s and adults’ barred lists pursuant to paragraphs 3 and 9 of Schedule 3 to the SVGA 2006. The decision was based on evidence DBS had received from the appellant’s former employer, including CCTV evidence, that on 15 May 2020 the appellant had verbally, emotionally and physically abused a service user to whom she was providing care as a live-in carer. DBS’s decision was taken without the appellant having made representations, her applications for an extension of time to make representations in advance of the decision (or late) having been refused by DBS.

The structure of this decision is as follows:-