(Central Family Court, January 2026)
There is a persistent administrative reflex whereby repeated inconvenience is rebranded as necessity.
This addendum exists because that reflex finally required footnotes.
Filed for the Issues Resolution Hearing of 26 January 2026, the document performs a modest task: it assembles the record and asks the court to notice that nothing bad happened — and yet everything kept changing.
What the Record Establishes (Without Raising Its Voice)
During December 2025:
contact was repeatedly altered, reduced, or cancelled,
for reasons described as staffing, closures, events, and logistics,
while contemporaneous professional notes recorded contact as positive, settled, and beneficial.
No new safeguarding risk was identified.
No deterioration in parenting was recorded.
No welfare concern arose during contact itself.
And yet, instability persisted.
One almost admires the commitment to disruption in the absence of cause.
Disability Context, Politely Reintroduced
The addendum does something unfashionable: it remembers that predictability matters.
It notes — without drama — that:
the children’s emotional regulation deteriorated alongside unpredictability,
anxiety, vigilance, and guardedness increased,
and these changes are consistent with prolonged uncertainty, not parental risk.
It further observes that this impact is compounded by disability and health context, for which routine and regulated transitions are not preferences, but necessities.
This is not framed as accusation.
It is framed as welfare literacy.
The Placement Move That Arrived Without Announcement
The document then records a placement move for Romeo that:
occurred without prior parental notification,
lacked recorded transition planning,
included no documented welfare rationale,
and failed to address sibling relationships.
One might have expected at least a memo.
Instead, the addendum simply notes the absence — and moves on.
Confidence is a luxury afforded by a clean record.
The Actual Question Before the Court
The addendum does not ask whether contact is safe.
It states, calmly, that it is.
The question posed is far less theatrical, and therefore far more dangerous:
Is repeated administrative instability, absent risk, proportionate — and compatible with the children’s welfare?
It is a question that cannot be answered with another timetable change.
SWANK’s Position (Implied, Not Announced)
This file raises no new allegations.
It synthesises what already exists.
It invites the court to distinguish risk from inconvenience, and safeguarding from poor planning.
It is not advocacy.
It is memory.
And memory, when properly filed, has a way of becoming decisive.
Filed: January 2026
Court: Central Family Court
Posture: Observational
Mood: Professionally unimpressed
Logged so the instability does not get rewritten as inevitability.
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