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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v The Coinless Custodians: On Pocket Money, Economic Infantilisation, and the State’s Misunderstanding of What Care Costs


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The Pocket Money Scandal

Or, How Four Children Went from Financial Autonomy to Institutional Pennypinching

Filed: 5 August 2025
Reference Code: SWK-FINANCIAL-DEGRADATION-2025-08
PDF Filename: 2025-08-05_Addendum_WeeklyAllowanceDeprivation.pdf
One-Line Summary: All four children had structured weekly allowances. Since removal, the payments have stopped. SWANK calls this what it is: economic neglect.

I. What Happened

In the Chromatic household, financial education began young — and gracefully. Each child received a weekly allowance, scaled to age and maturity:

  • Regal – £100

  • Prerogative – £75

  • Kingdom – £50

  • Heir – £25

It wasn’t extravagant. It was deliberate.
A structured rite of passage.
A declaration that their desires mattered, that their choices had weight, and that the home was a place where wants were met without shame or delay.

Since being taken by Westminster Children’s Services, that structure has vanished.
No weekly allowance.
No budgeting.
No choices.
No dignity.

And Westminster dares to call this protection?

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That the Local Authority has failed to maintain even basic lifestyle parity

  • That the children’s independence, autonomy, and confidence have been undermined

  • That financial withholding is being used as a tool of institutional infantilisation

  • That Romeo, a 16-year-old boy who previously managed £100 per week, is now effectively on state rations

Let it be clear:
This is not just about pocket money.
It is about dehumanisation by delay and reduction.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because financial literacy is not optional.
Because allowances are not perks — they are practice.
Because removing a child from their home does not grant the state license to downgrade their quality of life.

And because safeguarding should never resemble austerity.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 22(3)(a) – Duty to promote the welfare of looked-after children

  • Article 8 ECHR – Interference with private and family life through economic deprivation

  • UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Articles 6, 12, 27 – Rights to development, participation, and adequate standard of living

  • Common Sense and Ethical Stewardship – Flagrantly ignored

V. SWANK’s Position

We log this with gold-toned indignation.
Because the issue isn’t merely that no money has been given — it’s that the Local Authority never asked what the children were used to. They never tried to replicate it. They never intended to.

To deny a child their financial autonomy while claiming to act in their best interests is, quite simply, economic gaslighting.

If the Local Authority cannot match or exceed the standard these children enjoyed at home —
then they must return them to the household that did.

The price of removal cannot be paid in the children’s currency.

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