⟡ ADDENDUM: FAILURE TO PLAN & DISABILITY ACCOMMODATION BREACH ⟡
Filed: 27 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/FAILURE-TO-PLAN
Download PDF: 2025-09-27_Core_PC-168_WestminsterCouncil_FailureToPlan_DisabilityAccommodationBreach.pdf
Summary: Westminster’s chronic disorganisation is not a quirk of bureaucracy but a strategy of control — one that disables participation, destabilises children, and breaches both human rights and statutory welfare obligations.
I. What Happened
Westminster Children’s Services has elevated last-minute scheduling into an institutional doctrine.
Meetings, reviews, and hearings are organised at such short notice that participation becomes impossible, particularly for a parent managing eosinophilic asthma, a recognised autoimmune disability requiring structured pacing and advance notice.
The result is a system that punishes disability through chaos: procedural ambush masquerading as administration.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Westminster’s disorganisation is systemic, not incidental.
• The Local Authority’s practices breach Equality Act 2010 duties to accommodate disability.
• Short-notice scheduling directly harms children’s stability and welfare, violating the Children Act 1989.
• Article 6 ECHR rights to fair participation are undermined through exhaustion and surprise.
• Disorganisation functions here as institutional retaliation, not inefficiency.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• To convert Westminster’s disorder into documented evidence of unlawful practice.
• To affirm that procedural chaos is a form of discrimination when it targets a disabled litigant.
• To assert that safeguarding begins with scheduling, not spectacle.
• Because governance without planning is dereliction disguised as diligence.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
• Children Act 1989 s.1 – welfare principle undermined by unpredictable routines.
• Equality Act 2010 ss.20 & 149 – failure to make reasonable adjustments; breach of Public Sector Equality Duty.
• Human Rights Act 1998 / ECHR Articles 6, 8 & 14 – procedural fairness, family life, and equality infringed.
• Working Together to Safeguard Children – statutory duty to plan and consult ignored.
• Social Work England Professional Standards – integrity and communication not upheld.
• Bromley Family Law (14th ed.) – stability and parental engagement are welfare essentials.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “administrative pressure.”
This is strategic disorganisation — weaponised incompetence by design.
SWANK refuses to normalise procedural chaos as “busy caseloads.”
We reject the cult of crisis that punishes disabled participation.
We document every missed calendar entry, every ambush email, every schedule-as-weapon.
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