⟡ Video Contact and Withdrawal of Consent re EveryChild ⟡
Filed: 25 October 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/PC-200058
Download PDF: 2025-10-25_Core_PC-200058_Westminster_VideoContactWithdrawalOfConsentEveryChild.pdf
Summary: Notice of lawful withdrawal of consent from EveryChild Contact Centre following police involvement and procedural breach; request for alternate video contact venue under statutory equality and safeguarding law.
I. What Happened
On 25 October 2025, Polly Chromatic issued formal notice to Westminster City Council confirming withdrawal of consent for EveryChild Contact Centre to host, supervise, or facilitate any future contact.
This decision followed the police incident of 24 October, which rendered the venue neither neutral nor lawful.
The correspondence demanded video contact arrangements for 28 October 2025, supervised directly by Westminster, and required confirmation of dial-in details and named supervisors by noon on 27 October.
In short: what Westminster calls “contact management,” SWANK recognises as institutional trespass with bureaucratic décor.
II. What the Document Establishes
• That consent for EveryChild’s involvement was lawfully withdrawn under duress and public-safety grounds.
• That Westminster remains bound by Children Act 1989 s.34 to promote contact, regardless of administrative embarrassment.
• That the Equality Act 2010 (ss.20–21 & 27) protects written communication and forbids retaliatory limitation of parental access.
• That procedural misconduct does not dissolve statutory obligation.
• That “EveryChild” has become the most ironic brand in contemporary safeguarding.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the right to family contact should not hinge upon the emotional stability of a subcontractor.
Because no mother should require police evidence to justify breathing space.
Because when a venue becomes an instrument of coercion, the withdrawal of consent is not defiance — it is jurisdictional hygiene.
SWANK logged this correspondence as an act of refusal elevated to record — a study in administrative disentanglement, conducted in accordance with law and contempt alike.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• Children Act 1989 – s.34: Duty to promote contact
• Human Rights Act 1998 – Art.8: Right to family life
• Equality Act 2010 – ss.20–21 (reasonable adjustments), s.27 (protected acts)
• Public Law Principles – Prohibition on coercion, procedural fairness, and proportionality
• Safeguarding Standards – Requirement of neutrality, non-retaliation, and medical accommodation
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “a preference for another venue.”
This is the lawful retraction of consent from an unsafe institution masquerading as care.
SWANK rejects the illusion that subcontracted supervision absolves the Council of liability.
We reject the moral contortion that equates compliance with safeguarding.
We will continue to document every inch of bureaucratic theatre in which public servants confuse control with welfare — and record it, gorgeously, for the archive.
⟡ Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every consent withdrawn. Every incident retained. Every performance remembered.
Because evidence deserves elegance — and withdrawal deserves ceremony.
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