When a Department Mistook Its Own Memory for Evidence.
Filed: 11 September 2020
Reference: SWANK / Social Development TCI / PC-011
Download PDF: 2020-09-11_Core_PC-011_SocialDevelopmentTCI_DisclosureNarrativeMisrepresentation.pdf
Summary: Disclosure letter from the Turks & Caicos Islands Department of Social Development, offering a narrative so inconsistent that it qualifies as creative writing with administrative stationery.
I. What Happened
• On 11 September 2020, Ashley Adams-Forbes, Acting Director of Social Development, sent a “Disclosure” letter to Lara Maroof ( James Law Chambers ) regarding Polly Chromatic and her four children.
• The letter reads like an unpublished novel about compliance and concern, in which every date is approximate and every omission intentional.
• It cites anonymous reports that never materialised, assessments that were never completed, and interventions whose only measurable outcome was administrative noise.
• Despite conceding that the children were healthy and the home stable, the Department proposed “continuing involvement,” proving that withdrawal, not welfare, is the institution’s true crisis.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Institutional self-exoneration: an agency editing its own reputation.
• Procedural fiction: the re-classification of delay as diligence.
• Evidence of medical and chronological invention.
• A live demonstration of colonial bureaucratic poetics — where adjectives perform the labour facts refuse to do.
• That disclosure, in the archipelago’s dialect, means anything vaguely typed before lunch.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• Because the file is Exhibit A in the literature of administrative narcissism.
• For jurisprudential precision: the moment an institution decided to narrate rather than account.
• To educate future jurists that consistency is not merely a virtue — it is an evidentiary requirement.
• To remind posterity that sometimes a “disclosure” is simply a confession without punctuation.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• Children (Care and Protection) Ordinance 2015 §§ 17 & 19 — failure to complete or disclose investigations.
• Data Protection Ordinance 2018 — false and misleading record-keeping.
• UN CRPD Arts 7 & 17 — protection of family integrity and bodily autonomy.
• ECHR Arts 6 & 8 — fair hearing and private life.
• Equality Act 2010 s.26 (UK cross-reference) — harassment through institutional communication.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “record-keeping.”
This is bureaucratic fan fiction.
• We do not accept improvised history as governance.
• We reject grammatical gaslighting as procedure.
• We file every misused semicolon as motive.
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