PQ v Disclosure and Barring Service: [2024] UKUT 161 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Wikeley on 5 June 2024.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service and Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber)
• Published: 18 June 2024

• Categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups
• Sub-categories: Safeguarding vulnerable groups - Children’s barred list
• Judges: Wikeley, N
• Decision date: 5 June 2024

Read the full decision in UA-2023-001559-V.

Judicial Summary

Appeal by male teaching assistant against Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) decision to place him on children’s barred list following six findings of what the DBS described as “grooming type behaviour” in 3 different girls’ schools over a period of 9 months. The Upper Tribunal found that the DBS’s findings that 5 of the 6 allegations were made out did not involve any material mistake of fact. Overall, the fact that one of the allegations was not made out was not material to the decision to include the appellant on the children’s barred list.

Published 18 June 2024