⟡ On Noticing Changes in the Children ⟡
Filed: 14 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/BEHAVIOUR
Download PDF: 2025-09-14_Addendum_Westminster_ChangesInChildren.pdf
Summary: Records behavioural shifts observed in the children, evidencing environmental strain and statutory breach.
I. What Happened
• During contact on 14 September 2025, the children’s tone, mannerisms, and energy were markedly different.
• These shifts were inconsistent with their natural personalities, suggesting external influence.
• Such changes align with prior observations of suppression, silencing, and emotional strain under Local Authority care.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Change in baseline – authentic personality disrupted.
• Environmental impact – behaviour altered by strain, not by parental care.
• Parental vigilance – Director attentive to subtle cues of harm.
• Pattern recognition – consistent with earlier logged evidence of silencing and coaching.
• Developmental concern – sudden changes signal trauma, not natural hostility.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• Legal relevance – establishes statutory breaches under the Children Acts.
• Human rights significance – shows disproportionate interference with Article 8 family life and Article 12 UNCRC rights.
• Academic authority – Bromley and Amos confirm misuse of safeguarding powers and disproportionate rights violations.
• Historical preservation – ensures behavioural distortions are recorded as institutional harm, not misread as evidence against the parent.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• Children Act 1989, ss.1, 17, 22, 47 – welfare and safeguarding duties breached by environments causing emotional harm.
• Children Act 2004, s.11 – safeguarding duty exercised without regard to stability.
• Equality Act 2010, s.20 – failure to accommodate disability-related family needs.
• Human Rights Act 1998, s.6 – authorities acted incompatibly with Convention rights.
• ECHR – Article 8 (family life), Article 10 (expression), Article 14 (non-discrimination) breached.
• UNCRC – Articles 3, 9, 12 violated by separation, environmental distortion, and suppression of authentic voice.
• Case Law – Re H and R (1996), Re L (2007), YC v UK (2012) confirm emotional harm and proportionality principles.
• Academic Authority –
– Bromley’s Family Law: condemns safeguarding misuse when difference is misread as risk.
– Amos, Human Rights Law: affirms proportionality; suppression of child voice is disproportionate.
• Psychology – Bowlby (attachment), Bronfenbrenner (ecological systems), ACE research, DSM-5 trauma criteria confirm behavioural shifts as harm markers.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not evidence of hostility. This is evidence of harm.
• We do not accept that children’s altered behaviour reflects natural change.
• We reject mischaracterisation of stress as hostility toward the parent.
• We will document all shifts as proof of environmental distortion and institutional breach.
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