⟡ The Calendar of Absence ⟡
Filed: 30 October 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC–CFC/CONTACT–327F–AUDIT
Download PDF: 2025-10-30_Core_PC-327F_Westminster_ContactCancellations_AuditRecord.pdf
Summary: Five cancellations, one city, no law. Westminster demonstrates that when procedure meets inertia, children become diary entries.
I. What Happened
22, 24, 27, 29, and 31 October 2025: Mother’s contact sessions cancelled — sometimes “under review,” sometimes “pending paperwork,” always “not our fault.”
24 and 31 October: Father’s contact cancelled — collateral victims of the unsigned document cult.
28 October: Grandmother’s contact cancelled — matriarchal affection deemed administratively inconvenient.
All cancellations trace back to Westminster’s refusal to honour the Equality-Compliant Contact Plan — a lawful document treated as optional literature.
This is not administration; it is abstention.
II. What the Document Establishes
• That Westminster’s primary safeguarding mechanism is the delete key.
• That “under review” means “we have misplaced our courage.”
• That in the absence of competence, officials rely on calendar management.
• That family life is now subject to bureaucratic mood swings.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because history must know that October 2025 was when Westminster redefined “child contact” as a scheduling inconvenience.
Because these cancellations are not isolated errors — they are the architecture of contempt.
Because one must annotate negligence until it trembles under punctuation.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Children Act 1989 s.34 — Contact unlawfully obstructed.
Equality Act 2010 s.20 & s.26 — Failure to adjust and harassment through process.
Human Rights Act 1998 Art. 8 — Family life displaced by departmental convenience.
UK GDPR Art. 5(1)(d) — Inaccurate and incomplete record-keeping.
UNCRC Art. 9 & 18 — Separation of children from parents without due cause.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “rescheduling.”
This is bureaucratic abstinence — government by avoidance, virtue by vacancy.
We do not accept Westminster’s ritual cancellations masquerading as caution.
We reject its paper sainthood and calendar-based cruelty.
We will catalogue each silence until it develops a conscience.
⟡ Archival Seal ⟡
Every date a disappearance.
Every apology a ritual.
Every bureaucrat an author of absence.
Because evidence deserves elegance — and neglect deserves narration.