⟡ The Bureaucrat’s Ballet ⟡
Filed: 30 October 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC–CFC/CONTACT–327J
Download PDF: 2025-10-30_Core_PC-327J_Westminster_ContactArrangements_ProportionalityAndCooperation.pdf
Summary: Westminster’s staff interpret “cooperation” as a ritual of administrative obedience — mistaking signatures for sincerity and silence for compliance.
I. What Happened
Applicant confirmed she is willing to follow every rule, every policy, every unspoken whim of the contact centre.
She expressed readiness, composure, and the rare virtue of proportionality.
Westminster replied with paperwork — pages and pages of it — performing an entire symphony of bureaucracy in a key best described as C Major (for Control).
The children wait; the emails multiply.
II. What the Document Establishes
• That in Westminster, “cooperation” means applauding the Council’s confusion.
• That “best practice” means producing paperwork faster than decisions.
• That bureaucracy confuses obedience with peace.
• That proportion has been replaced by paranoia — and both are laminated for record.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because this is not safeguarding — it’s choreography.
Because Westminster has turned the family court process into interpretive dance: an exhausting, circular performance that ends where it began — in paperwork.
Because the applicant’s restraint deserves publication; the Council’s excess deserves punctuation.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Children Act 1989 s.34 — Right of Contact.
Equality Act 2010 s.20 & s.26 — Failure to Adjust and Harassment.
Human Rights Act 1998 Art. 8 — Family Life.
CPR PD1A — Participation and Fairness.
Bromley, Family Law (11th ed.) — Administrative Overreach and Disproportion.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “failure to cooperate.”
This is institutional narcissism — government by attachment and cc list.
We do not accept Westminster’s doctrine of form over substance.
We reject its conflation of authority with accuracy.
We record every polite absurdity until bureaucracy learns that elegance is not evidence.
⟡ Archival Seal ⟡
Every policy a pirouette.
Every cc a curtsey.
Every document a dance no one asked to join.
Because evidence deserves elegance — and compliance deserves critique in couture.