⟡ THE ISO/ICO CLARIFICATION INCIDENT: WHEN SOCIAL WORK ENGLAND ANSWERED A QUESTION THAT WAS NOT ASKED ⟡
Filed: 19 November 2025
Reference Code: SWANK/SWE/01CORE-ISO-ICO-MISREADING
PDF: 2025-11-19_PC00085_01Core_Welfare_CFC_SocialWorkEngland_ClarificationRequestOrderTypeISOvsICO.pdf
Summary: A regulator responds to a forensic legal question with a brochure.
I. WHAT HAPPENED
On 19 November 2025, Polly Chromatic sent Social Work England a clean, exact, highly structured clarification request:
asking whether the case was recorded as ISO (Interim Supervision Order) or ICO (Interim Care Order)
referencing CAFCASS correspondence
citing multiple SWANK evidentiary entries
copied to Westminster, RBKC, HMCTS, and CAFCASS
clarifying Equality Act adjustments
providing legal and jurisdictional grounding
establishing the need for accuracy in the official record
In response, SWE replied with:
a template
unrelated guidance
a suggestion that you “contact your local authority”
instructions for filing a fitness-to-practise complaint you did not ask about
a link to their concerns webpage
a polite sign-off which, under the circumstances, reads as satire
At no point did Social Work England:
acknowledge the ISO/ICO discrepancy
answer the jurisdictional query
recognise the legal issue
comprehend the question
or acknowledge the multi-court consequences
It is the regulatory equivalent of asking a surgeon about cardiac arrhythmia and being handed a leaflet titled:
“So You Think You Might Have To Wash Your Hands.”
II. WHAT THE DOCUMENT ESTABLISHES
Social Work England did not read the clarification request.
They responded to the existence of an email, not the content.Regulators are procedurally allergic to specifics.
A direct legal question triggered a boilerplate template.Accuracy of order type (ISO vs ICO) is entirely unmonitored at the regulatory level.
The burden of legal precision remains solely on the mother.
Regal, Prerogative, Kingdom, and Heir continue to be governed by institutions unable to distinguish between:
supervision vs care
oversight vs template
statutory obligation vs internal habit
The Local Authority has not corrected the ISO → ICO conversion, yet SWE offers no comment.
The email exposes that no entity is tracking the lawful order type, even though it controls four children’s lives.
The regulator’s response reveals a professional culture where comprehension is optional, but template output is compulsory.
III. WHY SWANK LOGGED IT
SWANK archived this because:
This response is a regulatory failure in miniature — a perfect specimen.
It forms evidence of institutional non-reading, which has shaped the entire case.
It shows that oversight bodies are not performing oversight.
It preserves a timestamped record showing the regulator’s total disengagement from statutory accuracy.
It supports future submissions to:
Social Work England (formal)
ICAI
CAFCASS governance
UN Special Rapporteurs
U.S. human-rights monitors
And crucially:
It proves the ISO/ICO discrepancy survives not through malice, but through administrative incomprehension.
IV. APPLICABLE STANDARDS & VIOLATIONS
• Children Act 1989 — Accuracy of order type:
Ignored.
• Family Procedure Rules — Duty of Candour:
Undermined by absence of engagement.
• Regulatory Function (SWE):
Reduced to template distribution.
• Equality Act 2010:
Written adjustments were provided; comprehension was optional.
• Public Law Accountability:
Displaced by customer-service scripts.
V. SWANK’S POSITION
SWANK states with velvet precision:
A regulator that cannot distinguish an ISO from an ICO
cannot distinguish compliance from misconduct.And a regulator that does not read clarification requests
cannot regulate the profession that relies on them.
This entry is archived as Exhibit SWE-67, demonstrating that accuracy in Case No: ZC25C50281 has been upheld only by the mother — never by the institutions charged with maintaining it.
Regal, Prerogative, Kingdom, and Heir remain governed by a system in which template fulfilment has replaced legal literacy.
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