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⟡ Chromatic v Westminster: When Silence Was a Strategy ⟡


⟡ “They Escalated to PLO, But Forgot to Answer the SAR.” ⟡
Ombudsman complaint documenting disability discrimination, procedural sabotage, and data protection breach by Westminster City Council

Filed: 22 April 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/LGO-COMPLAINT-PLO-DISCRIMINATION
📎 Download PDF – 2025-04-22_SWANK_LGOComplaint_Westminster_DisabilitySARProceduralBreach.pdf
Formal complaint to the LGSCO citing systemic failures by Westminster Children’s Services under the Equality Act and UK GDPR

I. What Happened

On 22 April 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a detailed complaint to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, outlining four intersecting violations by Westminster City Council’s Children’s Services:

  1. Disability discrimination: Written-only communication requests ignored despite medical certification, leading to physical harm

  2. Procedural sabotage: No outcome report issued after a year of Child in Need assessments, then sudden escalation to PLO

  3. Data protection breach: A Subject Access Request (SAR) submitted under UK GDPR was unlawfully delayed past deadline

  4. Retaliation and opacity: Harassment complaints against social worker Kirsty Hornal were closed without written explanation

The document makes it clear: this wasn’t bureaucratic error. It was calculated obfuscation — designed to isolate, exhaust, and escalate.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Procedural breaches: No closure report for CIN process; unlawful PLO escalation; failure to respond to SAR

  • Human impact: Respiratory flare-ups, psychological deterioration, and intensified legal distress

  • Power dynamics: Council forcing escalation while denying the family access to evidence and due process

  • Institutional failure: Collapsing internal accountability paired with administrative retaliation

  • Unacceptable conduct: Using safeguarding pathways to punish lawful resistance, not protect children

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because SARs are not optional.
Because public law fairness is not a formality.
Because retaliating against a disabled mother for asserting her rights isn’t just wrong — it’s a pattern.
Because you can’t demand verbal compliance when the medical file says “no voice.”
And because when the council escalates without explaining the last escalation, it ceases to be protection — and becomes persecution.

This wasn’t negligence.
This was deliberate legal erosion, wrapped in child protection rhetoric.

IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 & 27 – failure to make adjustments and retaliatory conduct following protected acts

  • UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018, Sections 45–54 – unlawful failure to respond to SAR within the required time

  • Children Act 1989, Section 17 – misapplication of safeguarding escalation without procedural closure

  • Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) – failure to document, inform, or involve

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 & 8 – denial of due process and unjustified interference with family life

V. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept that safeguarding frameworks can be weaponised to punish non-compliance.
We do not accept that access to personal data can be delayed to gain legal advantage.
We do not accept that omitting a case outcome is a clerical oversight.

This complaint is not a request. It is a jurisdictional reprimand — logged, timestamped, and filed for systemic review.

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