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You Ignored the Mould. You Reported the Mother.


⟡ The House That Made Us Sick — And the System That Blamed Us ⟡

Filed: 31 December 2023
Reference: SWANK/ELGIN/2023-CHRONOLOGY-DISREPAIR
📎 Download PDF — 2023-12-31_SWANK_ElginCrescent_HousingDisrepair_SafeguardingRetaliation_Chronology.pdf

I. This Is Not a Chronology. It Is a Medical Crime Scene Log.

This document details the cascading deterioration of health, housing, and state accountability at Elgin Crescent, where illness was not only ignored — it was converted into suspicion.

What it captures:

  • Black mould

  • Structural damp

  • Children vomiting

  • Disability worsening

  • And a housing provider that did less than nothing

Until, of course, it wasn’t just inaction — it was retaliation.

II. A Timeline of Dignified Decay

This record shows:

  • Repairs requested, ignored

  • Medical letters submitted, dismissed

  • Hospital admissions, reframed as instability

  • Disrepair, reframed as neglect

What followed was not a response — it was a safeguarding probe.

The walls were rotting. So they investigated the mother.

III. When Housing Becomes a Trigger for Surveillance

Let the chronology show:

  • The home was uninhabitable

  • The council was warned repeatedly

  • The parent complied with every requirement

  • And the reward was a multi-agency safeguarding enquiry

No apology. No repairs.
Just an institutional side-eye, formalised in paperwork.

This is not housing failure.
This is public health weaponised as maternal suspicion.

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not believe that housing decay exempts councils from liability.
We do not consider safeguarding a valid response to illness.
We do not accept that disabled parents must prove their worth while coughing through fungal walls.

Let the record show:

  • Every letter was sent

  • Every hazard was logged

  • Every refusal was medical

  • And every escalation — was theirs

This document is not a complaint. It is an architectural autopsy.




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