JH v Disclosure and Barring Service : [2025] UKUT 029 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Stout on 22 January 2025

Read the full decision in UA-2024-000498-V .

Judicial Summary

The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) included the appellant on the children’s barred list because it considered that, while working as an early years practitioner at a preschool, the appellant pulled a 4-year-old child by the hair in response to him pulling her hair. The Upper Tribunal finds that there was no mistake of law or fact in the decision of the Disclosure and Barring Service and confirms the decision.

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Published 18 February 2025