⟡ SWANK Local Authority Complaint ⟡
“She Was Swimming Fine Until They Saw Her Face.”
Filed: 31 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/PORCHESTER/2025-05-31
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I. Leisure, Until You’re Not the Right Kind of Child
On 31 May 2025, SWANK London Ltd. submitted a formal complaint to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) regarding an act of direct and discriminatory conduct at Porchester Hall Leisure Centre.
The victim:
A Black child.
Age 11.
Calm. Respectful. Swimming under supervision.
The problem:
She didn’t “look old enough.”
So she was removed.
Without precedent. Without inquiry. Without justification.
II. What the Complaint States
This was not about safety.
This was about visible difference and assumed defiance.
The complaint outlines:
Unlawful removal from the pool despite safe, observed behaviour
Racialised assumptions about age, defiance, and “compliance”
Prior inclusion in the same session under identical circumstances
No attempt to contact or verify with the parent (who was present)
A direct statement by staff implying age was “obvious from her look”
Let us be clear:
What changed was not her behaviour.
What changed was who saw her.
III. Why SWANK Filed It
Because public leisure spaces are not exempt from discrimination law.
Because leisure does not mean license to profile.
Because dignity is not age-restricted.
This complaint makes clear:
The child was compliant.
The parent was present.
The reason was perception, not policy.
We filed it so that what occurred at Porchester Hall is recorded, named, and impossible to dismiss as a misunderstanding.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not teach our daughters that their existence is disruptive.
We do not let white public servants define defiance by skin tone.
We do not walk away quietly from leisure centres that remove children with a glance and a shrug.
Let the record show:
She swam without harm.
She was told to leave anyway.
And now it’s a matter of formal complaint.
This is not petty.
This is patterned.
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