⟡ The Complaint That Must First Prove It Deserves to Exist ⟡
“Before we investigate discrimination, kindly re-perform your harm in bullet points.”
Filed: 18 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/SWE/SAMUELBROWN-PT10413
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Social Work England responds to complaint PT-10413 regarding Samuel Archer Laurance Brown, requesting justification, reformulation, and pre-qualification before possible investigation.
⟡ Chromatic v Social Work England: On the Bureaucratic Demand to Curate Your Own Misconduct File ⟡
SWE, complaint triage, Samuel Brown, access refusal, encrypted contact, safeguarding retaliation, fitness to practise pre-screening, administrative gatekeeping
I. What Happened
On 18 June 2025, Social Work England acknowledged receipt of complaint PT-10413, concerning social worker Samuel Archer Laurance Brown, following documented allegations of discrimination, coercive escalation, and refusal to honour written communication access needs.
Rather than proceed to investigation, SWE issued a triage-stage reply from officer George Wicks, summarising the complaint in reductive language and requesting clarification on each bullet-pointed harm — in order to decide whether the complaint is “sufficiently serious” to be considered.
SWE’s message explicitly warns the complainant that discussing Family Court information may constitute contempt of court, and advises them to seek legal advice before submitting evidence — in the same paragraph as it requests that evidence.
II. What the Message Establishes
⟡ Gatekeeping disguised as due process — harm must be pre-curated, re-argued, and defended to qualify
⟡ Systemic minimisation — disabling misconduct reduced to "did not follow preferences"
⟡ Risk redirection — warning the complainant of contempt, while requesting potentially contemptuous detail
⟡ Institutional convenience — public confidence positioned above individual access
⟡ Algorithmic sympathy — “we may need to delete your evidence”
This wasn’t triage. It was a test of endurance.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when a regulator treats discrimination as a conditional concern, and harm as a formatting issue, it is not safeguarding integrity — it is preserving itself. This is not investigation. It is performance selection. And SWANK does not audition for justice.
We document these emails because they are not replies.
They are delays, framed as diligence.
IV. Structural Failures and Risks
HRA 1998, Article 6 & 14 – discrimination compounded by burden of procedural proof
Equality Act 2010 – access failure and indirect discrimination not treated as fitness breaches
Safeguarding conflict – asking disabled parent to interpret contempt risk without legal aid
Complaint architecture punishes complexity — structural discrimination is procedurally disqualifying
V. SWANK’s Position
This wasn’t acknowledgement. It was admission by delay.
This wasn’t regulation. It was rehearsal for rejection.
SWANK does not accept complaint systems that punish precision.
We do not re-justify harm to qualify for scrutiny.
And we will not request permission to speak when already on record.
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