👑 A Velvet Misdiagnosis
Or, Why Sewer Gas Isn’t a Parenting Style and Misreading Medical Files Doesn’t Count as Safeguarding
Metadata
Filed: 8 August 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/MEDCRISIS/WESTMINSTER/2025
PDF Filename: 2025-08-08_SWANK_Addendum_MedicalCrisis_SafeguardingNegligence.pdf
Summary: This addendum exposes how temporary illness was weaponised as false incapacity — and how Westminster turned a mother’s medical emergency into a bureaucratic custody fantasy.
I. What Happened
Between June 2023 and April 2025, the mother endured a life-threatening medical crisis: oxygen levels plummeted to 44% due to sewer gas poisoning. This was not a metaphor. This was toxic air in a rented flat — the kind of air that steals your breath and then, apparently, your children.
Instead of emergency respiratory support, St Thomas’ Hospital opted for fiction: they accused the mother of being intoxicated. They never corrected the record. And in the vacuum of clinical error, Westminster Children’s Servicesfound their opening.
Social workers arrived not with oxygen or care — but with harassment, surveillance, and zero willingness to engage with facts.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
This submission documents the following:
A temporary but severe illness was used to mischaracterise long-term parenting capacity;
No clinical consultation or trauma-informed understanding was sought;
Brompton Hospital — the mother’s actual treating provider — was ignored;
The Local Authority escalated removal plans without offering any disability support;
And they did so while receiving written medical updates they simply refused to read.
This wasn’t child protection.
It was administrative revenge for daring to be ill in public.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because safeguarding isn’t a scavenger hunt for stigma.
Because disability misrepresentation is not care — it is violence.
Because four children were removed under a presumption that their mother’s asthma was parenting and her medical silence was guilt.
And because the phrase “sunglasses and isolation” has no place in serious safeguarding files unless you are investigating a jazz musician.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – s.22 (duty to work in partnership), s.31 (emotional harm), s.47 (threshold for intervention)
Equality Act 2010 – disability accommodation failures
European Convention on Human Rights
Article 8 – Family life
Article 6 – Fair process
UNCRC – Articles 3, 9, 12 (best interests, child voice, right to family)
Professional Duty Breaches – Failure to consult medical team, refusal to acknowledge written disclosures
SWANK Standard 1.0 – Do not remove children for being sick in a country that made them sick
V. SWANK’s Position
What Westminster called neglect was in fact asthma, exhaustion, and a misdiagnosis buried under silence.
No lawful authority can transform a sewer gas-induced emergency into lifelong parental incapacity — yet that is precisely what was attempted here. This is not safeguarding. This is State Fiction — a genre Westminster seems to be publishing in bulk.
The record stands:
Polly Chromatic was a mother surviving a severe illness, while still protecting, educating, and advocating for her children.
The harm came after that — from the ones who refused to read, to ask, or to help.
This post is filed into the SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue as a matter of record, international interest, and legal ceremony.