⟡ ADDENDUM: MINIMISATION OF EOSINOPHILIC ASTHMA AS A HIDDEN DISABILITY ⟡
Filed: 28 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/HIDDEN-DISABILITY-ASTHMA
Download PDF: 2025-09-28_Core_PC-169_WestminsterCouncil_AsthmaMinimisation_HiddenDisability.pdf
Summary: Westminster and its clinical satellites have redefined ignorance as policy — trivialising eosinophilic asthma, weaponising disability, and punishing the very vigilance that preserves life.
I. What Happened
For years, eosinophilic asthma has been treated not as a medical condition but as a moral inconvenience.
Hospitals dismissed critical oxygen readings; schools ignored inhaler plans; Westminster labelled vigilance as exaggeration.
When the mother described her children’s illness accurately, she was accused of “fabrication.” When she managed it competently, she was accused of “overprotection.”
This is the anatomy of a hidden disability misunderstood by institutions that prefer visibility to knowledge.
II. What the Document Establishes
• Asthma is a hidden disability under the Equality Act 2010 — severe, variable, and life-threatening.
• Westminster’s conduct constitutes systemic minimisation and procedural discrimination.
• The mother’s lawful homeschooling and structured routines were protective medical measures, not neglect.
• Since removal, the children’s repeated illness confirms institutional medical neglect.
• Ignorance of respiratory disability is not innocence; it is negligence in administrative form.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• To expose the bureaucratic violence of disbelief.
• To preserve legal and medical proof that asthma management is a matter of life preservation, not parenting style.
• To confront the cultural allergy to invisible disabilities.
• Because every breath misread as exaggeration is a policy failure measured in oxygen.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Domestic Law
• Equality Act 2010, ss.6 & 20 – asthma qualifies as disability; failure to adjust is unlawful.
• Children Act 1989, s.17 – duty to safeguard disabled children ignored.
• Education Act 1996, s.7 – homeschooling lawfully discharged duty to provide suitable education.
Human Rights
• ECHR Articles 2, 3, 6, 8, 14 – life, dignity, fair process, family, and equality violated.
• Human Rights Act 1998 s.6 – public bodies acted incompatibly with Convention rights.
International Law
• UNCRC Articles 3, 12, 23, 24, 31 – best interests, participation, and disability rights denied.
• UNCRPD Articles 5, 7, 23, 25 – equality and medical safeguarding breached.
• WHO Asthma Framework – calls for consistent monitoring ignored.
Academic Authority
• Bromley Family Law (10th ed.) – safeguarding requires cooperation, not inversion.
• Amos Human Rights Law (2nd ed.) – disproportionate interference violates Article 8.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not “parental exaggeration.”
This is respiratory evidence met with administrative apathy.
SWANK rejects the institutional doctrine that hidden disabilities are optional to acknowledge.
We document that Westminster’s disbelief has caused measurable harm — physical, emotional, and procedural.
To minimise a disability is to manufacture harm.
To pathologise protection is to commit abuse in the name of care.
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