“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

In re Defiance: On the Projection of Institutional Failure into the Voices of Children


Defiance as Fiction, Blame-Shifting as Policy

(On the Juridical Erasure of Children’s Voices in the Conduct of Westminster)

Filed: 8 September 2025
Reference Code: ZC25C50281–Addendum–RightToBeHeard
Filename: 2025-09-08_SWANK_Addendum_ChildrensRightToBeHeard.pdf
Summary: Children’s testimony is reframed as “difficulty” so Westminster can silence rather than safeguard.

I. What Happened

  • Regal (16) described intimidation and profanity by his foster carer.

  • Prerogative (13), Kingdom (10), and Heir (8) witnessed the same, yet their confusion and distress were written off.

  • Instead of hearing them, professionals reframed testimony as “defiance” or “non-compliance.”

  • This distortion projects Westminster’s own failures back onto the children.

II. What the Addendum Establishes

  • Defiance as Fiction: Honest accounts of harm are caricatured as “difficult teenage behaviour.”

  • Blame-Shifting as Policy: By labelling children “non-compliant,” Westminster conceals its own safeguarding breaches.

  • Erasure as Governance: Voices are not heard but transcribed into categories that protect bureaucrats, not children.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because the LA’s entire strategy depends on silencing.
Regal’s near-adult testimony is treated as rebellion; his siblings’ fear is coded as nuisance. In Westminster’s lexicon, every disclosure is a problem to be erased, not evidence to be weighed.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, s.1(3): Welfare checklist ignored; children’s voices distorted.

  • UNCRC, Article 12: Right to be heard violated through systematic reframing.

  • ECHR, Article 6: Fair process denied when testimony is dismissed as “defiance.”

  • Equality Act 2010, s.149: Duties under the Public Sector Equality Duty ignored, replaced by projection.

V. SWANK’s Position

The Director’s children are not “difficult.” They are witnesses.
The real difficulty lies in Westminster’s inability to accept responsibility, preferring to rename its own failures as “teenage defiance.”

This is not safeguarding. It is institutional gaslighting — the juridical laundering of children’s voices into the language of blame.

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