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Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

In Re: The Prohibition of Pencils – A Child Welfare Regime in Miniature


🪞 SWANK London Ltd.
Filed Dispatch – Journal Evidence Series, Vol. VI

The House of Don’t

In Re: Surveillance Parenting, Arbitrary Rules, and Procedural Cruelty Disguised as Routine

Metadata

Filed: 1 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK-JOURNAL-0825-RULESINSURRECTION
Filename: 2025-08-01_SWANK_JournalEntry_FosterRules_ArbitraryAndRisky.pdf
1-Line Summary:
Handwritten “rules” list revealing domestic micro-authoritarianism in a foster placement managing asthmatic children.

I. WHAT HAPPENED

This page — titled simply “Rules” — was written by a child under foster placement as a record of the arbitrary regulations imposed on them. It includes the following:

  • “Don’t jump on trampoline when it’s wet”

  • “Don’t touch anyone on trampoline”

  • “3 or more people can’t be on the trampoline”

  • “Don’t use upstairs bathroom”

  • “Don’t go downstairs for food”

  • “No playing with other people when sick”

  • “Come home”

  • “Go to ur room at 8”

  • “No pencils in ur room”

  • “Don’t bring takeaway back home”

At first glance, it reads like an exaggerated boarding school checklist. But each rule reveals not structure — but restriction.

II. WHAT THE COMPLAINT ESTABLISHES

Each entry reflects a concerning substitution of care with compliance:

  • Arbitrary Environmental Control: “Don’t use upstairs bathroom” and “Go to your room at 8” undermine dignity and autonomy.

  • Medical Mismanagement: “No playing with other people when sick” lacks medical rationale and promotes exclusion, not care.

  • Nutritional Policing: “Don’t bring takeaway back home” restricts food access, a disturbing echo in an asthma-vulnerable household.

  • Stationery Ban: “No pencils in your room” deprives children of expression, education, and emotional processing.

  • Surveillance Culture: Restrictions on trampoline use, time, space, and food imply behavioural control over developmental care.

III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT

Because children do not make up rules like this.
They write them down to remember them — and because they are afraid of breaking them.

This is not a safeguarding plan.
This is micro-control under the guise of care.

The ban on pencils and takeaway food is not accidental.
It is ideological: designed to suppress, isolate, and diminish.

We logged it because no child in care should ever feel this tracked, this punished, this muted.

IV. VIOLATIONS

  • Children Act 1989 – Section 22 – Inappropriate placement rules that undermine developmental needs

  • ECHR Article 8 – Interference with private life and autonomy

  • UNCRC Articles 12, 13, 31 – Suppression of self-expression, recreation, and voice

  • Equality Act 2010 – Potential indirect disability discrimination (nutrition and asthma management)

  • Trauma-Informed Safeguarding Standards – Replaced with control-based compliance frameworks

V. SWANK’S POSITION

The rule “no pencils in your room” is the most honest phrase in this entire care plan.

It tells us everything:
That writing, expressing, learning, and journaling — the very tools of recovery — are seen as subversive.

This document is now logged in the Regal Journal Series as Exhibit VI, and cross-referenced with asthma-related claims, ECHR filings, and placement oversight misconduct.

You cannot foster dignity by banning pencils.

You cannot call it care when it is clearly control.

Filed in forensic disgust and legal precision,
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
www.swanklondon.com

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