Failure to Make Reasonable Adjustments: Written Communication Ignored by Westminster Council

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⟡ “If You Won’t Read, I’ll Have to Report”: Disability, Silence & Email as Emergency ⟡
A woman tries to communicate her access needs — and is met with neglect, not accommodation.

Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ADJUST-026
📎 Download PDF – SWANK_DisabilityAccessFailure_WCC_14Dec2024.pdf
Accessibility request email outlining communication barriers, health risks, and legal neglect.

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I. What Happened
On 14 December 2024, Polly Chromatic sent a plainspoken yet legally consequential email to Westminster City Council officers Kirsty Hornal and Sarah Newman. Copied were legal counsel and NHS liaison Philip Reid. The message outlined her disability-related communication needs: speech is limited, writing is essential, and verbal processing depletes her ability to parent.

She proposed a simple workaround — professionals could read her emails and reply briefly in person or by phone when convenient. Instead of support, she received systematic non-response. Solicitors failed to reply. The Council did not acknowledge the request. Silence became strategy.

When ignored, she began reporting safeguarding and harassment issues directly to police — not out of escalation, but because no one would read her emails.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

• Breach of the Equality Act 2010 (duty to make reasonable adjustments)

• Failure to acknowledge or action a direct accessibility request

• Withholding of information through format-policing

• Gendered dismissal: clarity mistaken for hostility, literacy mistaken for defiance

• Institutional preference for verbal compliance over written precision

This was not confusion. It was exclusion.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because no disabled person should have to apologise for being legible.
Because “I get sick when I speak” is not emotional — it is physiological, and disregarded.
Because Westminster City Council routinely filters out anything it cannot dominate through tone or pace.
Because accessibility is not a favour — it is a statutory obligation, and they failed it.

SWANK records this to expose bureaucratic fog as a method of control. The format is not the issue. The woman is.

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IV. SWANK’s Position
This was a formal access request.
The refusal to read is not ignorance — it is strategy.
SWANK does not accept manufactured incoherence or the pathologising of email as aberration.
We will document every failure to accommodate, every refusal to respond, every professional who treats access as inconvenience.

Silence will be made legible. Every time.

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Complete Failure to Action Disability Access Requests: Westminster Officers and Legal Counsel in Systemic Breach

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⟡ “I’m Not Emailing You for Fun”: The Systemic Refusal to Accommodate a Literate Disabled Woman ⟡
Westminster officers and lawyers refused to read. A disabled woman’s lawful adjustment request was treated as noise.

Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ADJUST-026
📎 Download PDF – SWANK_DisabilityAccessFailure_WCC_14-15Dec2024_CompleteSet.pdf
Five consecutive emails requesting written communication as a lawful disability adjustment. All ignored. Only one NHS contact responded.

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I. What Happened
Between 14 and 15 December 2024, Polly Chromatic sent five clear, composed emails to safeguarding officers, solicitors, and her NHS liaison. She stated the issue repeatedly: she cannot safely speak for extended periods. Written communication is not a preference — it is a medical and legal necessity.

The emails were not excessive. They were exact. She outlined the solution. She explained her capacity. She documented her decline.

And still — no response.

Council officers said nothing. Blackfords LLP, paid counsel, said nothing. Merali Beedle, whose job was to advise, said nothing.

Only Dr Philip Reid replied. Everyone else performed the modern art of professional disappearance.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

• Repeated violations of the Equality Act 2010 (reasonable adjustments)

• Safeguarding negligence: disabled risk disclosures ignored

• Legal abandonment by counsel of record

• Gendered silencing of a literate woman via inbox erasure

• Refusal to accommodate communication despite explicit requests and clear consequences

This was not a missed message. It was a patterned refusal to read.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the question “Why would I email you for fun?” should shame an entire profession.
Because a disabled woman must not be forced to perform clarity, politeness, and legal awareness in five formats before being acknowledged.
Because Westminster City Council and its legal affiliates do not have a communication problem — they have a control problem.
Because SWANK has seen this before, and will see it again, and will not allow it to disappear quietly.

This was not the absence of advice. It was the suppression of access.

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IV. SWANK’s Position
This was a statutory access request.
The silence was operational. The neglect was proceduralised.
This wasn’t safeguarding. It was gatekeeping by omission.
SWANK does not accept the pretence that unread emails cancel obligation.

We document what they refuse to answer.
We publish what they try to drown in silence.
Where professionals vanish into policy, SWANK will stand — fluent, furious, and filed.

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19 Charges, Zero Reports — The State vs. One Mother With a Voice

 📢 SWANK Dispatch: Complaint Filed, System Indicted — A Maladministration Portfolio

🗓️ 1 July 2020

Filed Under: maladministration, forced medical exams, fence dismantling, complaint escalation, racial and philosophical discrimination, policy evasion, procedural breakdown, institutional retraumatisation

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“If this is child protection, then tell me: who’s protecting them from you?”
— A Mother with a Legal Mind and an Asthmatic Lung

In this formidable submission to Mrs. Astwood of the Complaints Commission, dated 1 July 2020, Polly Chromatic brings a meticulously itemised formal complaint against the Department of Social Development in Grand Turk.

Not a grievance.
A case file.
Backed by documents, medical records, witness statements, and 19 grounds of maladministration.

Let us recount.

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⚖️ I. Charges of Maladministration Include:

1. Unnecessary delays

2. Bias

3. Negligence

4. Improper procedures

5. Wrongful decisions

6. Improper service

7. Discourtesy

8. Performance failures

9. Discrimination (race, sex, age, education, parenting philosophy)

10. Harassment

11. Corruption

12. Abuse of power

13. Flawed internal processes

14. No justification for decisions

15. Lack of humane consideration

16. Unfairness

17. Incompetence

18. Arbitrariness

19. Mistake of law or fact

No exaggeration.
Each charge is backed by incident.

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🔪 II. Physical and Emotional Violations

• May 2017: Her three sons were sexually assaulted on a hospital table by a state-appointed doctor under police and social work supervision.
• August 2019: Her fence was dismantled. Entry forced. No probable cause.
• COVID-19: Social workers entered against Emergency Powers, without masks, with no legal basis, despite her severe asthma.
• September 2019: Social workers hijacked her son’s birthday to interrogate the family over a fabricated vaccination claim.

Not a single one of these incidents was followed up with a report, a review, or an apology.

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📚 III. Homeschooling as the Original Sin

Though approved by Mark Garland of the Ministry of Education, her choice to homeschool her children seems to have been the original offence in the eyes of the Department.

What followed was years of:

• Policy shifting
• Approval denial
• Truancy threats
• Investigations without cause

All while she submitted annual curricula, proof of education, and sought transparent cooperation.

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🧠 IV. What She Asks for Is Not Vengeance — But Standards

She doesn’t want revenge. She wants:
• Communication
• Appointments
• Reports
• Due process
• Policy compliance
• Respect for her health and boundaries
• Consideration for her children’s dignity

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💬 Final Words:

“Your assistance in investigating and resolving this matter would be extremely beneficial for my family as well as the public sphere.”

A citizen wrote a legal document.
A mother documented 3 years of unrelenting injustice.
SWANK now holds the archive.

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Failure to Acknowledge Disability Adjustment Requests: Westminster Officers and Legal Counsel Silent

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⟡ “If You Refuse to Read, You Forfeit the Right to Help”: Adjustments Denied, Emails Ignored ⟡
When a disabled woman wrote for her life, Westminster's professionals ghosted her — and called it care.

Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ADJUST-026
📎 Download PDF – SWANK_DisabilityAccessFailure_WCC_Reid_14Dec2024.pdf
Two disability adjustment requests ignored by Westminster City Council and legal counsel. One NHS liaison responded. No one else did.

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I. What Happened
On 14 December 2024, Polly Chromatic wrote not once, but twice, to Westminster City Council officers, solicitors, and NHS contacts — outlining, with excruciating courtesy, the reality of a communication-limiting disability. Verbal speech made her sick. Email was essential. Phone was possible, if brief.

What she received in response was: nothing.

No acknowledgement. No reply. No professional integrity.

Lawyers failed to respond at all, despite being instructed repeatedly to communicate by email. A council safeguarding officer, allegedly engaged, left the access need unrecorded. One lone NHS consultant — Dr Philip Reid — read the emails and acted. Everyone else abandoned the conversation while feigning participation.

The result? She turned to police reports. Not as escalation, but as the only remaining format that anyone seemed to respect.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

• Formal breach of Equality Act 2010, s.20 (failure to make reasonable adjustments)

• Neglect by omission: adult safeguarding duties disregarded through silence

• Systemic exclusion of disabled participation via “format failure”

• Gendered tone-policing of written requests as somehow excessive, or non-urgent

• Institutional cowardice: when clarity exposes risk, retreat into non-responsiveness

This is not communication breakdown. It is communication control.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because too many disabled people are rendered inadmissible — not by law, but by inbox.
Because email is not optional when the alternative is medical collapse.
Because local authorities have developed a taste for erasure via non-engagement, especially when the witness is articulate, disabled, and female.
Because this is not Westminster’s first instance — nor will it be its last — of deleting a woman’s voice under the guise of “process.”

SWANK recorded it because the “reasonable adjustment” was not misunderstood. It was refused.

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IV. SWANK’s Position
This was a statutory request. It was ignored.
This was a legal duty. It was evaded.
This was not safeguarding. It was silence, weaponised.
SWANK does not accept the reduction of disability to inconvenience — nor the obliteration of email as somehow excessive when male professionals can’t be bothered to read.

We will document every refusal to respond. Every opt-out. Every ghost.
Where institutions erase the record, SWANK is the record.

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Systemic Non-Response to Disability Access Requests: Westminster Officers and Legal Counsel in Breach of Duty

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⟡ “I’m Not Emailing You for Fun”: Disability Law, Institutional Neglect, and the Exit from Dialogue ⟡
After six ignored access requests, one disabled woman stops asking. The law remains. The inboxes are archived.

Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ADJUST-026
📎 Download PDF – 2025-01-09_SWANK_EMAIL_WCC-LAWYERS_Disability-Access-Refused.pdf
Six emails sent between 14 December 2024 and 9 January 2025 requesting lawful disability adjustments. No response from Westminster or legal counsel.

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I. What Happened
Over a 27-day period, Polly Chromatic submitted six detailed communications to Westminster City Council officers, her legal representatives, and NHS liaison Dr Philip Reid. Each email clearly outlined the same point: she cannot speak for more than a few minutes at a time due to disability. Written communication is not a preference — it is her only lawful means of access.

She received no replies from the council. No acknowledgement from legal counsel. No indication that her statements had been read.

The final message, sent 9 January 2025, marked a shift. She disengaged. She announced her decision to stop repeating herself for the benefit of a system committed to not listening. The request for “advice” became rhetorical. The duty to accommodate became archived.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

• Serial breaches of the Equality Act 2010, s.20–21

• Complete failure by Westminster officers to acknowledge or act on disability communications

• Legal malpractice: solicitors refused to engage in the client’s only accessible format

• Gendered minimisation of written communication as “excessive” or “for fun”

• Procedural erasure through administrative non-response

This is not poor coordination. It is tactical neglect.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because asking for adjustments six times is not excessive — it is judicial patience.
Because when professionals refuse to read, they forfeit the right to intervene.
Because silence is not neutrality — it is discrimination with a paper trail.
Because a disabled woman forced to write her own exit deserves more than being framed as “difficult.”

SWANK files this as both record and refusal. A dossier of lawful clarity, met with institutional disdain.

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IV. SWANK’s Position
This was a legal request.
The silence was strategic.
This wasn’t a delay — it was a decision.
SWANK does not accept the professional practice of making disabled women disappear by ignoring their format.

We document when they don't respond.
We publish when they pretend they didn’t read.
We record the end of dialogue — and file it, beautifully.

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Systemic Failure to Respond to Disability Access Requests: Westminster Officers and Legal Counsel in Breach

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⟡ “Why Would I Email You for Fun?”: The Bureaucratic Death of Adjustment Law ⟡
A disabled woman asks — four times — for written communication. She is met with absolute professional silence.

Filed: 12 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ADJUST-026
📎 Download PDF – SWANK_DisabilityAccessFailure_WCC_14-15Dec2024_FULL.pdf
Complete record of four disability adjustment emails to Westminster staff and solicitors, all of which were ignored. NHS liaison only respondent.

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I. What Happened
Between 14 and 15 December 2024, Polly Chromatic sent four separate emails to Westminster City Council, her solicitors, and NHS contact Dr Philip Reid. These were not casual remarks. They were legal requests. Adjustment notices. Statements of necessity.

She explained, repeatedly and with unflinching clarity, that she cannot speak for long without physical harm. Email is her safe medium. All she asked was that professionals read — and, if needed, respond briefly by phone or in person. This is how her own partner, doctors, and carers operate.

No reply came. Not from Westminster safeguarding staff. Not from Merali Beedle. Not from Blackfords LLP.

Only Dr Reid responded. The others chose silence.

She asked plainly: “Why would you assume I’m emailing for fun?” The question, of course, was rhetorical. In this system, to be a disabled woman is to be read as excessive by default — and unread in practice.

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II. What the Complaint Establishes

• Serial breaches of the Equality Act 2010 (failure to make reasonable adjustments)

• Neglect of professional duty across council and legal services

• Safeguarding failure via systemic non-engagement

• Discriminatory pattern: written communication treated as ignorable when authored by disabled women

• Legal services collapse: firms placed the client’s case in a folder, then denied her access to it

This is not misunderstanding. It is professional disappearance.

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III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because no one should have to defend their use of email in 2025.
Because when silence becomes a safeguarding strategy, the institution has lost its claim to care.
Because Westminster’s preferred communication model is domination — not dialogue.
Because this is not an isolated error, but an orchestrated absence.
Because women who write clearly are treated as if they’ve committed an offence.

SWANK recorded it because these emails are not "excessive." They are excluded.

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IV. SWANK’s Position
This was a lawful request for access.
The silence was unlawful, intentional, and strategic.
This was not miscommunication. It was dismissal by design.
SWANK does not accept the procedural laundering of discrimination. We do not accept silence as neutrality, nor format as grounds for exclusion.

We will document every refusal to read. Every legal ghost. Every inbox that becomes a graveyard.
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🦚 Formal Complaint to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman – Concerning RBKC’s Refusal to Investigate Disability Discrimination and Social Worker Misconduct (Ref: 15083377)

Filed under the documentation of bureaucratic evasion, safeguarding malpractice, and the erosion of accessible public care.

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30 March 2025
To:
Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman
Website: www.lgo.org.uk

Subject: Formal Complaint – Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea’s Refusal to Investigate Disability Discrimination and Social Worker Misconduct (Ref: 15083377)

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📜 Dear Sir or Madam,

I write not merely as a complainant,

but as a citizen regrettably well-versed in chasing accountability through the gilded labyrinth of institutional apathy.

I request that the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman formally investigate the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) for its refusal to investigate multiple allegations of professional misconduct, disability discrimination, and procedural failure, as outlined in my submission of 24 March 2025 (Ref: 15083377).

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📚 I. Context: A Chronicle of Avoidance in Five Acts

The complaint concerns a series of episodes involving RBKC social workers, whose conduct ranged from bizarre to medically dangerous, including:

• Mr. Earl Bullhead’s aggressive and medically harmful questioning of my children, resulting in asthma attacks requiring immediate intervention.

• Ms. Jane Mountain’s fabrication of allegations — including the claim that I “yell at my children” —

A physical impossibility given my eosinophilic asthma and muscle tension dysphonia.

• A three-month embargo on my access to the assessment report, preventing any timely challenge to embedded inaccuracies.

• The repeated denial of my reasonable adjustments, specifically the right to written-only communication.

• The February 2024 home visit by Ms. Sally Silly, accompanied unlawfully by her unvetted mother, escalating the case against me for the “offence” of having a disability that impedes verbal speech under duress.

Each episode, distinct in detail, unified in disregard.

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📜 II. RBKC’s Refusal to Investigate: Bureaucracy as Theatre

RBKC refused to investigate, citing:

1. That events occurred over 12 months ago;

2. That the case had been transferred to Westminster in March 2024.

These defences are:

• Factually inaccurate — RBKC’s jurisdiction plainly extended into 2024;

• Procedurally indefensible — The effects of the misconduct remain ongoing.

Moreover:

• My repeated attempts to raise concerns were either ignored or met with bureaucratic stonewalling;

• RBKC systematically failed to accommodate my disability, violating both the Equality Act 2010 and LGO standards.

Thus, the burden of remedy now falls to the Ombudsman.

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📚 III. Request for Formal Review by the Ombudsman

Accordingly, I respectfully request that the Ombudsman:

• Undertake a comprehensive investigation of RBKC’s failures, with full consideration of submitted evidence.

• Determine whether RBKC breached:

  • The Equality Act 2010;

  • The Children Act 1989;

  • The Local Government Act 1974.

• Ascertain whether RBKC’s refusal to investigate constitutes maladministration, particularly given the disability-related barriers I face.

• Examine RBKC’s failure to provide a lawful, accessible, and non-discriminatory complaints process.

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📜 IV. Supporting Documentation Attached: A Compendium of the Ignored

• My formal complaint to RBKC (24 March 2025);

• RBKC’s rejections (25 & 27 March 2025);

• My rebuttal (26 March 2025);

• Email correspondence with RBKC (2023–2025);

• Medical evidence (available upon request);

• Video documentation (YouTube links available upon request).

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📬 Closing Request

I await your confirmation of receipt and trust that your office will afford this matter the level of scrutiny and seriousness

so markedly absent from the borough’s own response.

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📜 Yours sincerely,

With documented precision and constitutional insistence,
Polly

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