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The Braids Addendum
Or, How an Eight-Year-Old Was Denied Her Hair and Her Dignity by a Local Authority That Can’t Even Manage Plaits
Filed: 5 August 2025
Reference Code: SWK-GROOMING-DEPRIVATION-2025-08
PDF Filename: 2025-08-05_Addendum_HonorHairCare.pdf
One-Line Summary: Honor Bonneannee has waited over a month to have her hair braided. SWANK demands immediate compliance — or return of all four children.
I. What Happened
My daughter, Honor Bonneannee, is eight years old.
She is confident, expressive, and unapologetically stylish.
She also wants her hair braided.
She asked over a month ago.
In our home, this would have been arranged the same day — with care, cultural awareness, and her preferred style.
Instead, under Local Authority supervision, her request has been ignored, delayed, and indefinitely deferred. There is no explanation. No timeline. No sign of urgency.
A month has passed. Her hair is still not braided.
This is not just poor grooming coordination — it is administrative humiliation.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That the Local Authority has failed to meet the most basic cultural grooming request
That Honor’s identity, comfort, and routine have been dismissed without justification
That the delay is not logistical — it is institutional indifference masquerading as oversight
That something as ordinary as a hairstyle has become a symbol of state-administered disempowerment
Braids are not trivial.
They are tactile history.
They are control, beauty, and self-definition — especially for a girl growing up in a country that has tried to strip her of her family, her voice, and now her scalp.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because a child’s hair is not up for bureaucratic deliberation.
Because the state cannot call itself protective while withholding the most basic expressions of dignity.
Because this isn’t about hair — it’s about harm.
When a system ignores a child’s grooming request for over a month, it reveals what it really thinks of her personhood.
SWANK logged this to say:
We see the braidlessness. We name the delay. We file the shame.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – Section 22(3)(a) – Duty to promote the welfare of looked-after children
Equality Act 2010 – Failure to provide culturally sensitive care
UNCRC – Article 8 & 31 – Right to preserve identity and access cultural expression
Article 8 ECHR – Right to private life and personal autonomy
Basic Decency and Common Sense – Breach without appeal
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not an isolated incident — it is the tip of the deprivation iceberg.
When Honor’s braids are delayed by over a month, it is a mirror of every other unmet need:
The blocked contact.
The forbidden bikes.
The interrogated lunch.
The suppressed journal.
The surveillance at play.
We log this not to file a grooming request — but to file a charge of cultural neglect.
If Honor’s hair cannot be braided where she is, she should be returned immediately to the home where it always was.
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