🦚 On Clarification, Closure, and the Language of Letting Go: A Follow-Up from RBKC’s Customer Relationship Team
Filed under the documentation of quiet exits and conditional empathy.
10 January 2025
To: Polly
📜 Dear Polly,
We write further to our correspondence dated 2 January 2025, in reference to your complaint regarding the conduct and involvement of Social Care Services with your family.
Your concerns have been acknowledged — though not, one notes, yet resolved.
🧾 On Clarification and Procedural Exit Doors
We seek confirmation of the following:
Are you requesting that you no longer wish to work with the social care team?
orAre you requesting a full cessation of social care involvement altogether?
The distinction, it seems, is one of administrative delicacy —
one we are eager to honour once properly defined.
🔚 On Case Closure, Now That Plans Have Lapsed
Please note that, as your children are no longer subject to a Child Protection (CP) Plan, we would be happy to close our involvement, should you no longer wish to engage with the team.
Withdrawal, when formalised, becomes cooperation.
📬 On Complaint Precision
Clarification of your intentions will greatly assist us in formulating a response to your complaint —
or, at the very least, in knowing where to file it.
We await your confirmation at your earliest convenience, though we appreciate that convenience in these matters is often aspirational.
📜 Kind regards,
Customer Relationship Team
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea