DL v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2024] UKUT 247 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Brunner on 12 August 2024

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 3 September 2024

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Adults’ barred list
• Judges: Brunner, K
• Decision date: 12 August 2024

Read the full decision in UA-2020-000391-V.

Judicial Summary

Safeguarding Vulnerable Groups- mistake in a finding of fact on which decision to bar was based. Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) had found that care worker had borrowed money from a service user and asked to borrow more. Held: DBS had made mistake in finding of fact, appeal allowed- DBS directed to remove appellant from barred list.

Published 3 September 2024