📬 SWANK Dispatch: He Said He’d Restore Our Faith in Social Work. Instead, He Traumatised My Children in Public.
🗓️ 5 January 2024
Filed Under: public interrogation, child distress, coercive safeguarding, RBKC misconduct, sewer gas ignored, asthma requests dismissed, assessment failure, social worker surveillance, adultism, mother-blame culture
“He said he’d restore our faith.
Instead, he interrogated my sons on a playground.
In front of their new friends.
Without me there.
Now they call it abuse.”
— A Mother Who’s Had Enough of Empty Promises and Repeated Harm
This formal letter from Polly Chromatic to Rebecca Webber of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea documents a disturbing interaction on 5 July 2023, when social workers Eric Wedge-Bull and Jess visited her family’s new home at 37 Elgin Crescent.
What was promised as a rebuilding of trust became yet another violation of boundaries, dignity, and psychological safety.
👦🏽 I. Public Interrogation as “Assessment”
Eric asked Polly to leave her sons, Kingdom and Prerogative, with him at the community garden playground
He questioned them without consent, in front of peers and adults
The children returned visibly shaken
They later described Eric’s approach as aggressive and humiliating
The community later reprimanded Polly for bringing outside professionals into the shared space — a detail that adds to the emotional fallout and isolation
🫁 II. Ignored Requests, Unfinished Assessments
Despite Polly asking Jess for:
Help with medical counselling for eosinophilic asthma
Legal support to change their names
No follow-up was ever sent.
No formal report was issued until months later, and only after Noelle emailed chasing it in response to a hospital-instigated safeguarding referral.
The report had clearly never been finished.
Eric apologised — but the damage was done.
Repeated patterns of ghosting, abandonment, and surveillance had returned yet again.
🧠 III. What This Mother Knows
She’s been working with children since age 10
Formerly a teacher, daycare worker, nanny
Still in contact with the mothers of all the families she’s cared for
Repeatedly praised by neighbours and community members for her parenting
Not a single community member has raised concerns — only distant professionals operating on projections
✋ IV. The Demand
“My children do not want to be questioned again.
We are not supported by social workers.
We experience them as abusive.”
Polly states clearly: leave us alone.
Her children were abused by social workers in Turks and Caicos, and their most recent encounter in London has left them retraumatised.
SWANK Summary:
He came to repair trust.
He broke it further.
They asked for asthma support.
They got silence.
They offered openness.
They received surveillance.
Now they’re closing the door — and writing it down.