We have successfully defended a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) barred listed prosecution and subsequently argued for the deletion of the client’s police caution.

The client had been issued with a police caution and placed on the child and vulnerable persons barred list. The client was prosecuted for applying for a regulated job from which he was barred.

On the first day of trial representations were made that the trial was unfair as the original caution had been unlawfully issued.

After an adjournment of the trial the CPS offered no evidence and the trial collapsed.

Subsequent to the collapsed trial we made representations so the police for the caution to be expunged. After meeting with initial resistance, we were able to persuade the police that the caution ought to be deleted without the need for costly judicial review proceedings.

I just wanted to say thank you once again for your steady perseverance and support throughout this almost 2 year case.

Police Caution and DBS Appeals Solicitors

We are expert police caution removal lawyers and can help with any application to remove a caution (including a conditional caution or youth reprimand or warning as they used to be called – now called youth cautions).

If the DBS are planning to place you on the barred list, then please get in touch. We have significant success in defending DBS barred list applications.

If you are already on the barred list, and want to come off, we will be able to make representations for your removal.

If you have received a DBS certificate and relevant information has been disclosed, then please get in touch, we have extensive experience and success of removing prejudicial information from enhanced DBS certificates.

We have successfully appealed a decision against the DBS to put our client on the children and adults barred list.

Barred List and DBS appeals expert Solicitors

We carefully prepared representations to the Disclosure and Barring Service which persuaded the DBS to review and overturn their decision to place the client on the barred list.

I have been so stressed by the DBS decision to place me on the barred list. I am so thrilled that this is all over.

Teachers and the Barred List – How Can I Remove a Police Caution?

If you are a teacher, or hope to be one, a decision to place you on the barred list will ruin your future career; please get in touch to appeal a decision to place you on the barred list.

Barred List decisions and Heath Care Workers

If you work in health care, a barred list decision will bring an end to your career; please get in touch if you have been barred and you think you have grounds to appeal.

We have acted for many clients in appealing unfair convictions, cautions and decision taken by the DBS including appealing DBS certificates and barred list decisions.

DBS Expert Appeal Solicitors

Please get in touch to discuss your DBS appeal case.

We have been instructed to defend in a Disclosure and Barring Service instigated prosecution.

The client has been charged under section 7 of the Safeguarding vulnerable Groups Act 2006.

Applying for Work Whilst Barred

It is a criminal offence to apply for work to which you are barred by the DBS. Section 7 states the following:

7) Barred person not to engage in regulated activity

(1)An individual commits an offence if he—
(a)seeks to engage in regulated activity from which he is barred;
(b)offers to engage in regulated activity from which he is barred;
(c)engages in regulated activity from which he is barred.
(2)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—
(a)on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years, or to a fine, or to both;
(b)on summary conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or to both.

The maximum sentence on conviction for applying for work whilst barred is 5 years imprisonment.

DBS Safeguarding Vulnerable Persons Prosecutions

There are also separate offences for employers failing to conduct checks or permitting people they know or suspect are barred from working in a regulated sector.

Criminal Defence Disclosure and Barring service (DBS)

If you are charged with or under investigation for a Safeguarding Offence then please get in touch.

Can you get a Police Caution Removed?

Along with defending criminal allegations we are also very experienced in applying to the DBS to appeal an application to place someone on the barred list, appealing disclosures on DBS certificates and also applying for the expungement of police cautions or youth warnings (now called youth cautions).

Please get in touch to speak to an expert Disclosure and Barring service (DBS) solicitor.