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🦚 A Formal Complaint Regarding Mr. Gary Apple: A Failure of Leadership, Responsibility, and Response

Filed under the solemn documentation of executive dereliction and institutional dormancy.

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2025.04.03
To: complaints@rbkc.gov.uk
Subject: Formal Complaint Regarding Mr Gary Apple – A Failure of Leadership, Responsibility, and Response

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🧾 Dear Custodians of Civic Rectitude,

I write once again from the precipice of incredulity —
not in response to any new calamity, but in sustained disbelief at what has not occurred: namely, the basic fulfilment of professional duty by Mr. Gary Apple, Director of Family and Children’s Services at RBKC.

Despite bearing a title that implies oversight, accountability, and executive function, Mr. Apple has, in practice, served as little more than a decorative figurehead presiding over institutional dysfunction.

I have contacted him directly on multiple occasions, presenting detailed concerns regarding:

• Repeated failures to implement reasonable disability adjustments;

• Factually inaccurate assessments and unsupported safeguarding narratives;

• Inappropriate conduct by social workers during official visits.

These are not abstract grievances.
They concern lived harm — avoidable trauma, compromised health, and systemic discrimination — sustained firsthand by my child and myself.

And yet, Mr. Apple has chosen the path of strategic dormancy:
No substantive reply.
No visible intervention.
No credible stewardship.

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📜 Dereliction, Documented

Mr. Apple’s silence is not merely impolite.
It is institutionally consequential.

His failure to act upon repeated, serious concerns has permitted:

• Misconduct by subordinate staff to proceed unchecked;

• The continued denial of disability rights, in direct contravention of legal obligations;

• Sustained emotional and physical distress, without corrective safeguarding action.

A Director of Family and Children’s Services is not merely a ceremonial recipient of correspondence.
He is — or ought to be — a steward of public trust.

Mr. Apple has abdicated that responsibility — not once, but repeatedly and systematically.

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🧾 Requested Redress

Accordingly, I respectfully request:

1. A formal investigation into Mr. Gary Apple’s failure to respond to, or act upon, repeated safeguarding, discrimination, and misconduct complaints;

2. Clarification of internal expectations — if any — governing senior officers' responsibilities when receiving safeguarding concerns from disabled parents;

3. A written response devoid of vague assurances, template platitudes, or euphemistic non-apologies.

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📜 Final Remarks

Let us not pretend that this is a mere “communications issue.”

Mr. Apple’s inaction is not passive.
It is permissive.

It has enabled harm, eroded public trust, and cast serious doubt on whether RBKC's senior leadership retains even a passing acquaintance with the principles of child and family protection.

In the absence of leadership, what remains is only hierarchy —
and that, I fear, is precisely what this borough has become.

I await your written response — though not, alas, with optimism.

Yours,
With due formality and constitutional exactitude,
Polly

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