SWANK Scheduling Log
He’s Required to Visit Every 10 Days. I’m Required to Make It Work.
Filed: 27 March 2024
Labels: Compulsory Scheduling, Child Protection Rituals, Consent Under Obligation, State Imposition, Visit Compliance Records
🗂 WELCOME TO SWANK
An Archive of ✦ Elegance, ✦ Complaint, ✦ and Unapologetic Standards
from a Mother Harassed by the State in Two Countries for Over a Decade.
✦ The Exchange
Edward Kendall wrote on 27 March 2024 to schedule his statutory 10-day safeguarding visit.
He listed his constraints:
• Monday was a bank holiday
• Tuesday he was unavailable
• He requested availability Wednesday through Friday
I replied with precision and brevity:
“Friday at 4pm please.”
Not an invitation.
Not a welcome.
A compliance marker.
✦ SWANK Notes
This was not collaboration.
It was obligation thinly veiled as coordination.
When the state requires a visit,
the family must flex, accommodate, adjust—regardless of fatigue, health, or reality.
But when the state is unavailable,
it simply reschedules itself without consequence.
✦ What This Visit Isn’t
It is not:
• A well-timed check-in
• A request grounded in mutual need
• A safeguarding necessity
It is:
• A legal checkbox
• A relational disruption
• An intrusion labelled as care
✦ Final Word
I don’t owe availability.
I gave it. Once.
Because they call it “required.”
But SWANK calls it what it is:
Scheduled surveillance performed under the guise of routine welfare.
Filed under: Safeguarding Visit Theatre, State Time Supremacy, Parental Compliance Culture, Child Protection as Performance