⟡ Statement of Position for Case Management Hearing, July 2025 ⟡
Chromatic v. The Nine Days of Silence [2025] SWANK 36 — “The system paused. The children did not.”
Filed: 2 July 2025
Reference: SWANK/FAMILYCOURT/CMH-POSITION-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-07-02_StatementOfPosition_CMH.pdf
Filed ahead of the July CMH; documents emotional deterioration, medical neglect, and obstruction of contact since 23 June.
I. What Happened
On 2 July 2025, Polly Chromatic, acting as litigant-in-person, filed a Statement of Position with the Central Family Court in preparation for the upcoming Case Management Hearing scheduled for July 2025. The filing documents:
Nine consecutive days of contact denial following the EPO on 23 June
Cancellation of asthma-related medical care without consultation
Visible emotional collapse observed during first permitted contact on 2 July — especially in the youngest child
No information on medication status, placements, schooling, or emotional support for the children
Repeated obstruction of lawful contact and disregard for judicial expectations set at removal
This submission does not request sympathy. It demands jurisdictional recalibration.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Children with chronic health conditions were subjected to an unbroken period of institutional isolation
Medical treatment plans were unilaterally cancelled, breaching both continuity of care and duty of consultation
Contact has been systemically suppressed, disguised as administrative backlog
Emotional trauma is no longer speculative — it is visible, recorded, and escalating
Nine days of silence in response to a care order constitutes not protection, but abandonment by design
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because nine days without contact is not an administrative delay. It is harm.
Because cancelling asthma care is not a clerical error. It is medical negligence under procedural cover.
Because a system that removes children in one day and says nothing for nine is not broken. It is functioning exactly as built.
Because the youngest child is visibly collapsing — and no one in uniform seems to think that matters.
And because SWANK is not submitting a position. SWANK is submitting a correction to the record.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989, §§22 & 34 – Duty to maintain contact and medical continuity
Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 3 & 8 – Protection from degrading treatment; right to family life
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Articles 9, 24 – Right to parental contact and access to healthcare
Equality Act 2010, §149 – Failure to prevent indirect discrimination against disabled parent and asthmatic children
Care Planning Regulations 2010 – Breakdown in placement review, parental communication, and contact integrity
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t a procedural delay. It was systemic muting of a family in crisis.
We do not accept “case preparation” as an excuse for nine days of vanishing.
We do not accept contact that arrives only when the parent begs.
We do not accept the repackaging of silence as case management.
This case will be managed — but not by those who erased nine days from the record.
This filing is not a plea. It is an evidentiary landmark.
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