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Chromatic v Westminster – On the Unlawful Withholding of Contact, Property, and Procedural Humanity


⟡ “A Child Without a Charger Is Not Being Protected” ⟡
Request for Directions on Contact, Device Access, and Welfare Oversight

Filed: 27 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/REQUEST/0627-I01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-27_SWANK_Request_Section7ContactAndWelfareRelief.pdf
Request for urgent relief allowing phone contact, return of iPads, medication delivery, and welfare review

I. What Happened

On 23 June 2025, four disabled children—U.S. and U.K. citizens—were removed by Westminster Children’s Services under an Emergency Protection Order. They were denied time to pack, speak with their mother, or bring medical items. Since that date, all communication has been obstructed. Devices have been withheld. Clothing and asthma medication are not in their possession. The 16-year-old son, Regal, has been cut off from his iPhone. No contact has occurred. No service documents have been received.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Contact is being used as leverage against the applicant

  • Communication access is being obstructed without legal basis

  • Devices needed for emotional regulation and medical safety are being withheld

  • Property belonging to the children has not been returned

  • Court orders are being bypassed via informal, extrajudicial gatekeeping

III. Why SWANK Logged It

This is no longer a safeguarding matter. This is possession-as-punishment. Children with known medical needs, trauma history, and neurodivergent sensitivities have been thrust into isolation without phones, routines, or sensory tools. The right to family life has been suspended for institutional comfort. The Local Authority is holding access hostage and demanding appeasement.

SWANK London Ltd. documents this submission as a formal request for judicial intervention and welfare realignment.

IV. Violations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 7 and Section 8 (welfare decisions and contact rights)

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 (respect for family life and correspondence)

  • Equality Act 2010 (failure to provide disability-based adjustments)

V. SWANK’s Position

You cannot remove a child under false pretences and then confiscate their iPad. You cannot blockade contact to force submission. You cannot strip four disabled children of medical routines, sensory regulation, and legal access to their family—and call that protection.

We assert: The act of removing a child does not void the child’s rights.

Let them call. Let them write. Let them charge their devices. Let them sleep in clean pyjamas. Let them live like children—not collateral.

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Filed by:
Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
📧 director@swanklondon.com


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