⟡ ADDENDUM: On Contact Scheduling and Parental Communication ⟡
“Phantom Facilitation: When Contact Becomes a Burden Shifted onto Parents and Children”
Filed: 15 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/ADDENDUM-ALAIN-001
Download PDF: 2025-09-15_Addendum_Alain001.pdf
Summary: Addendum recording Westminster’s failure to structure lawful, international contact, displacing professional duties onto parents and destabilising children.
I. What Happened
• 15 Sept 2025: The Director and the children’s father exchanged WhatsApp messages on contact scheduling.
• The Director requested transparency: father to forward any Local Authority contact messages. He agreed: “Ok I heard u.”
• Father forwarded messages about proposed Tuesday midday sessions (Eastern Time) — unworkable given time zone differences.
• He then added: “Hey am not mad at u !!! U always do what u want!!!” — an emotional deflection undermining problem-solving.
II. What the Addendum Establishes
• Scheduling Difficulties — Local Authority provided impractical, unclear arrangements.
• Communication Strain — father’s frustration reveals how institutional failures cascade into parental conflict.
• Lack of Professional Structure — coordination improperly shifted onto parents.
• Impact on Children — unstructured, erratic arrangements destabilise welfare, routine, and education.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• Legal relevance: failure to structure contact breaches statutory and human rights duties.
• Oversight value: shows phantom facilitation where responsibility is displaced.
• Policy precedent: illustrates dangers of leaving parents to manage contact without professional structure.
• Historical preservation: records emotional fallout created by administrative negligence.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Domestic Law
• Children Act 1989, Sections 1, 22(3A), 34 — welfare, education, and contact duties breached.
• Children Act 2004, Section 11 — safeguarding obligations neglected.
Human Rights
• Article 6 ECHR — procedural fairness undermined by unclear, shifting arrangements.
• Article 8 ECHR — family life interfered with through unstable contact.
• Article 14 ECHR — discrimination by ignoring international time realities for U.S. citizen children and father.
• Article 3 ECHR — degrading instability imposed on children.
• UNCRC Articles 9, 12, 18 — rights to parental contact, voice, and State support violated.
Academic & Oversight Authority
• Bromley’s Family Law — contact is a child’s right, not parental concession.
• Bromley on cooperation — State duty to facilitate, not obstruct.
• Ofsted fostering standards — contact must be prioritised and supported.
• SWE Standards & Working Together (2018) — integrity and evidence-based practice absent.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not facilitation.
This is obstruction disguised as coordination.
We do not accept phantom facilitation.
We reject burden-shifting onto parents as lawful safeguarding.
We will document the instability created when Westminster abandons structure.
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