OS V Disclosure and Barring Service: [2025] UKUT 008 (AAC)
Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 8 January 2025.
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Judicial Summary
The Disclosure and Barring Service included the Appellant on both barred lists following an incident in which a service user fell from his bed to the floor while the Appellant and a co-worker were providing personal care. The DBS made the barring decisions not because of the fall itself but rather for the attempted cover-up through repeated failures to report and record the incident. The Upper Tribunal dismissed the Appellant’s appeal, holding that there was no error of law or material mistake of fact in the DBS’s decision.