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The Phantom of Procedural Consultation
A Doctrine on the Myth of Participation in Child Protection Reviews
Filed:
1 August 2025
Reference Code:
SWANK-ADDENDUM-0804-IRO-FAILURE
Filename:
2025-08-01_Addendum_IROCommunicationFailure_KirstyHornal_MichaelAdesanya.pdf
1-Line Summary:
Westminster claimed to appoint an Independent Reviewing Officer — who never made contact. The illusion of due process is not due process.
I. WHAT HAPPENED
On 23 July 2025, Westminster Children’s Services emailed Polly Chromatic to confirm that Michael Adesanya had been assigned as the Independent Reviewing Officer (IRO) for her children.
No introduction followed.
No contact. No invitation. No procedural explanation.
Eleven days later, the IRO remains a phantom figure — invoked for regulatory legitimacy, but absent in action.
II. WHAT THIS ESTABLISHES
This is not an accidental oversight. It is bureaucratic dramaturgy — wherein roles are announced but not inhabited.
It proves:
That procedural roles can be named without being fulfilled
That care reviews may be recorded without being shared
That parental participation is performative, not participatory
The IRO is a legal safeguard — but when reduced to a silent name in a paragraph, it becomes institutional furniture, not oversight.
III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT
Because the Local Authority is performing compliance rather than enacting it.
When the system proclaims that “the IRO will contact you shortly” — and no contact ever comes — the lie is not only interpersonal. It is regulatory.
This doctrine is a notice of procedural theatre.
The script has been recited. But the actors never appeared.
IV. VIOLATIONS ESTABLISHED
Children Act 1989 – Failure to facilitate parental engagement in statutory review
Care Planning, Placement and Case Review (England) Regulations 2010 – Breach of IRO duties
Article 6 ECHR – Procedural fairness denied through silence
Article 8 ECHR – Family voice excluded from care planning
Institutional integrity breach – Fictional compliance recorded in place of actual contact
V. SWANK’S POSITION
The IRO is not ornamental.
His absence is not symbolic — it is procedural sabotage, and it will be treated as such.
SWANK London Ltd. hereby asserts:
That naming a safeguard without activating it is institutional deceit
That non-contact is not neutrality — it is an act of procedural exclusion
That politeness without participation is a cover for structural violence
Polly Chromatic demands immediate contact from the IRO and a full record of the care planning timeline to date.
She did not miss the IRO’s email.
There was no email.
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