Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber

UT UA-2024-000745-V - [2025] UKUT 129 (AAC)

Fecha: 28-Mar-2025

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The Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)	UT NCN:[2025] UKUT 129 (AAC) UT Case Number: UA-2024-000745-V

Summary: Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups (65.8 and 65.9)

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 DBS’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.

Before

UPPER TRIBUNAL JUDGE JACOBS
TRIBUNAL MEMBERS JOSEPHINE HEGGIE AND JOHN HUTCHINSON

Between

SLS	Appellant
v
Disclosure and Barring Service	Respondent

THE UPPER TRIBUNAL ORDERS that, without the permission of this Tribunal:

No one shall publish or reveal the name or address of any of the following:

(a) SLS, who is the Appellant in these proceedings;

(b) any of the service users or members of staff mentioned in the documents or during the hearing;

or any information that would be likely to lead to the identification of any of them or any member of their families in connection with these proceedings.

Any breach of this order is liable to be treated as a contempt of court and may be punishable by imprisonment, fine or other sanctions under section 25 of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. The maximum punishment that may be imposed is a sentence of two years’ imprisonment or an unlimited fine.

Decided on following an oral hearing on 28 March 2025

Representatives
Appellant	Not represented
Disclosure and Barring Service	Timothy Wilkinson of counsel, instructed by DLA Piper UK LLP

Decision of the Upper Tribunal