⟡ Who Let Ben in the Room? Drayton Park’s Safeguarding Theatre ⟡
Filed: 15 November 2022
Reference: SWANK/EDUCATION/DRAYTON-BREACH
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I. The Interview Was the Violation
This letter, issued formally to Drayton Park Primary School, records the parent’s legal and procedural objection to the unsanctioned interviewing of minor children by:
An unknown male staff member,
Operating without prior disclosure,
In the context of a fabricated safeguarding concern,
Under false pretences of educational support.
The child was startled.
The parent was excluded.
The trust was obliterated.
The “safeguarding” was theatre — performed without script or consent.
II. What They Did. What They Should Never Have Tried.
No notification before the interview
No documentation of parental consent
No disability adjustments respected
No adherence to trauma-informed safeguarding practice
This was not a meeting.
It was an extraction — performed with institutional stagecraft and pastel deception.
III. Why SWANK Filed It
Because safeguarding is not a loophole for intrusion.
Because unfamiliar men do not belong in closed rooms with startled children.
Because institutional performance cannot override documented parental refusal.
Let the record show:
The boundary was crossed
The procedure was unregulated
The staff were unaccountable
And SWANK — filed the rupture with timestamped contempt
This is not educational support.
It is evidentiary malpractice in a classroom costume.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept retroactive justification for inappropriate contact.
We do not permit fabricated concerns to create legal access to children.
We do not redact the names of schools that used safeguarding to sidestep consent.
Let the record show:
The children were startled.
The mother was silent — by medical necessity.
The system interpreted that as permission.
And SWANK — interpreted it as misconduct.
This isn’t safeguarding.
It’s unauthorised access via institutional ruse.