Anxieties in Exile
On the Bureaucratic Delay of Comfort to Children in State Custody
Filed Date: 3 July 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/ICO/0703-BRACELET-REQUEST
Court Filename: 2025-07-03_UrgentRequest_Delivery_Emotional_Support_Items
One-line Summary: A formal request to deliver comfort items to four traumatised children held under contested interim care orders.
I. What Happened
On 3 July 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted an urgent email to Westminster Children’s Services requesting immediate facilitation for the delivery of personalised emotional support bracelets to her children. The items were custom-made with the intent to provide tangible comfort, psychological reassurance, and a sense of continued family connection during a period of state-enforced separation.
The request was directed to Samuel Brown and Kirsty Hornal—two public officers already under scrutiny for safeguarding breaches—and included offers to deliver the items personally or via a method of the local authority’s choosing.
As of filing, no confirmation of delivery arrangements has been received.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That even in matters as non-controversial and deeply humane as a mother sending comfort items to her distressed children, Westminster's response remains inert.
That emotional regulation and trauma-informed care are actively neglected, despite the known psychological impact of sudden family severance.
That such basic acts of compassion must now be routed through legal correspondence, treated as negotiations rather than care.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when a mother is required to file formal correspondence to secure the mere right to soothe her children, the system has failed.
Because the refusal to act with immediacy in the face of documented child distress is not only callous, but professionally irresponsible.
Because the authority tasked with "safeguarding" appears more committed to bureaucratic containment than to child wellbeing.
Because personalised bracelets should not require institutional permission, and yet they do.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989, Section 22 – General duty of local authority in relation to children looked after by them
Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 – Right to respect for family life
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 9 (separation from parents) and Article 12 (right to be heard)
Equality Act 2010 – Indirect disability discrimination and failure to accommodate parental strategy
Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) – Multi-agency responsibility for child wellbeing
V. SWANK’s Position
This was not a demand for contact. It was not a legal challenge. It was not an application or a motion. It was a mother’s request to deliver objects of comfort to her displaced children—bracelets, not affidavits.
The fact that such a simple act must be filed and logged speaks volumes. The fact that no response was given speaks louder. And so, SWANK London Ltd. logs it here: Not for spectacle, but for shame.
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