“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

Chromatic v Westminster (Ten Years of Nothing; Proportionality Abandoned; Welfare Subverted)



ADDENDUM: ON A DECADE OF EMPTY ASSESSMENTS

A Mirror Court Indictment of Futility, Retaliation, and Bureaucratic Obsession


Metadata

  • Filed: 3 September 2025

  • Reference Code: SWANK–ASSESSMENTS–DECADE

  • PDF Filename: 2025-09-03_SWANK_Addendum_DecadeEmptyAssessments.pdf

  • Summary (1 line): More than a dozen assessments in ten years, not one substantiated — harassment rebranded as safeguarding.


I. What Happened

Over a decade, Westminster and affiliated authorities subjected my family to more than a dozen assessments, investigations, and intrusive reviews. None substantiated abuse, neglect, or substantive risk. Yet the cycle continued, as though disproven allegations could somehow become true through repetition.


II. What the Addendum Establishes

Absence of Substantiation
Ten years of empty outcomes demonstrate not protection but disproportionality.

Pattern of Retaliation
Assessments arise not from evidence but from my lawful resistance to misconduct.

Cultural Discrimination
An American mother with international children is treated as suspect for failing to conform to British bureaucratic norms.

Child Welfare Harm
The repetition itself has become abuse: each assessment destabilises, stresses, and harms my children.

Waste of Resources
Public funds and judicial time have been squandered on futile reviews, draining resources from genuine safeguarding needs.


III. Consequences

  • Safeguarding mutated into harassment.

  • Courts burdened with recycled allegations.

  • Children deprived of stability and security.

  • Institutional obsession entrenched as practice.


IV. Legal and Doctrinal Violations

  • Children Act 1989, s.1 – welfare principle breached.

  • Article 8, ECHR – disproportionate interference with family life.

  • Article 6, ECHR – fairness eroded by recycling disproven allegations.

  • UNCRC, Article 3 – best interests of the child subordinated to procedure.

  • Equality Act 2010 – discrimination on nationality and disability grounds.

  • Re B-S (2013) – proportionality abandoned by repeated, baseless intervention.


V. SWANK’s Position

This is not vigilance. It is ritualised futility masquerading as protection. Ten years of nothing has yielded only evidence of prejudice, retaliation, and incompetence. My children’s lives are not laboratories for failed experiments; my motherhood is not an ethnographic site for British bureaucrats.


Closing Declaration

The Mirror Court declares:
Westminster mistook harassment for safeguarding.
Ten years of nothing proved everything: there was never anything to find.


Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
Mother and Litigant in Person


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