⟡ Re: The Doctrine of Procedural Retraumatization ⟡
A definitive illustration of how statutory safeguarding devolves into ritualised psychological harm.
Filed: 2 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/ROYALCOURTS/OBJECTION-SOCIALWORK
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Formal objection to further social work assignments on grounds of institutional retaliation and compounding trauma.
I. What Happened
Between 2023 and 2025, a succession of social workers cultivated a climate of unrelenting procedural hostility, culminating in the forcible removal of four children on 23 June 2025. In the aftermath, every overture for redress was met with the same anesthetised condescension: bureaucratic platitudes in place of accountability. This statement marks the moment when participation in the theatre of state benevolence became both impossible and clinically contraindicated.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That statutory oversight, when unrestrained by evidence or proportionality, becomes indistinguishable from persecution.
That trauma was not an unfortunate byproduct of intervention, but a predictable and repeatable consequence.
That a litany of procedural and disability accommodations were treated as optional footnotes.
That each further contact request from Westminster Children’s Services was a prelude to renewed psychological injury.
That the right to family life cannot be meaningfully exercised under perpetual siege.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because there is no jurisprudential virtue in allowing the same institutional actors to compound their original harm. Because the lexicon of “safeguarding” is routinely weaponised to obscure a continuum of state-inflicted damage. Because there comes a point when evidentiary saturation requires no further apology, only an archive.
IV. Violations
Article 8 ECHR (Right to private and family life—systematically impaired)
Article 3 ECHR (Freedom from degrading treatment—persistently ignored)
Equality Act 2010 (Disability discrimination and failure to accommodate)
Children Act 1989 (Child welfare subordinated to procedural convenience)
V. SWANK’s Position
This was not safeguarding. It was retaliatory oversight performed with the moral certainty of a state that no longer troubles itself with proportionality.
We do not accept the conceit that repeated traumatisation is an inevitable side-effect of legal compliance.
We will document every performance—uncompromising, unimpressed, and unbowed.
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