SLS v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 129 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Jacobs on 14 April 2025.

From:
HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
Published
14 May 2025
Categories:
Safeguarding vulnerable groups
Sub-categories:
Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Finding of fact and Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Proportionality
Judges:
Jacobs, E
Decision date:
14 April 2025

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Judicial Summary

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 Disclosure and Barring Service’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.

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Published 14 May 2025