A Doctrine on Distrust
Filed with every ounce of disdain due to negligent kingdoms
Metadata
Filed: 13 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/ADD/2025/09/Distrust
Filename: 2025-09-13_SWANK_Addendum_SystemicDistrust.pdf
Summary: The Local Authority’s culture of suspicion weaponises safeguarding into administrative bullying.
I. What Happened
The Local Authority has perfected the art of disbelief. Every child’s word is doubted. Every parental statement is reframed as hostility. The default is suspicion, the working assumption: liars, all of them.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Emotional harm to children — To teach a child that their voice is worthless is to vandalise their self-esteem.
Parental silencing — The Director is consistently portrayed as hostile simply for speaking, writing, or existing in written form.
Institutional cowardice — Suspicion is not safeguarding. It is projection. It is bureaucratic paranoia dressed in professional lanyards.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because trust is the foundation of welfare. And what this Local Authority practises is not welfare but witch-hunting by inbox. SWANK exists precisely to file these absurdities, to hold them up in gold-foiled contempt, and to remind the record that disbelief is a form of harm.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – breached by stripping children’s voices of dignity.
UNCRC, Article 12 – hollowed out by disbelief.
Article 8, ECHR – family life violated by presumption of falsehood.
Equality Act 2010 – communication difficulties rebranded as “hostility.”
Article 6, ECHR – equality of arms destroyed when LA assertions are gospel and ours are perjury until proven otherwise.
Bromley’s Family Law – expressly condemns misuse of consent, silence, or supposed non-cooperation.
Amos, Human Rights Law – requires proportionality and genuine respect for the family’s role.
V. SWANK’s Position
Distrust is not safeguarding; it is institutional abuse.
Suspicion, weaponised as procedure, is administrative bullying in child-protection clothing.
To distrust a child is to teach them distrust of self. To distrust a parent without cause is to assault the very notion of family.
Thus SWANK files, with solemn snobbery, that systemic distrust is the laziest form of governance — and the most harmful.
✒️ Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.