“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

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I Was Too Sick to Meet. She Was Too Cowardly to Put It in Writing.


🖋️ SWANK Dispatch
Postpone or Put It in Writing: Bureaucracy Is Not Exempt from Medical Ethics

Filed: 29 February 2024

Labels: Disability Accommodation, Social Work Refusal, Legal Oversight, Health Disregard, SWANK Legal Record, Medical Documentation Ignored

🕊 WELCOME TO SWANK

An Archive of ✦ Elegance, ✦ Complaint, ✦ and Unapologetic Standards
Curated by a Mother Harassed by the State in Two Countries for Over a Decade.

The Bureaucratic Push Through Illness

On 29 February 2024, I issued a clear, lawyer-advised request to Samira Issa of RBKC Family Services. The content was direct. The tone—measured. The logic—unassailable.

  • I was unwell, under medical treatment, supported by my GP.

  • I requested:
    ❖ Completion of her section of the Mapping Document by 1 March
    ❖ Postponement of the planned meeting in light of my medical needs

The law permits accommodations.
My GP confirmed the need.
My solicitor advised it.

Yet: Samira had not complied.

So I included a final clause of lawful insistence:

❝ If you refuse to postpone, you must put that refusal in writing with your reasoning so I may refer it to the hospital and obtain further legal advice. ❞

This is how we hold systems to account.

Not with tears.
Not with pleading.
With deadlines.
With demands.
With law.

✦ Filing Details

📎 Date: 29 February 2024
📍 Recipient: Samira Issa, RBKC Family Services
🖋 Legal Advisor Noted: Yes
📄 Medical Letter Noted: Yes
🩺 Condition: Respiratory illness requiring hospital treatment and aftercare
🕰 Urgency: Mapping Document deadline, meeting rescheduling

✦ Why This Matters

Social workers often act as if medical need is a nuisance, not a legal barrier. When a parent is sick—especially a mother—they presume noncompliance, not incapacity.

But incapacity, especially when medically verified, triggers rights.
It activates legal protections.
It cannot be brushed aside.

So I didn’t ask for compassion.
I demanded procedure.
And procedure is where they always falter.

✦ SWANK Reminder

If they cannot postpone,
they must explain.

If they cannot accommodate,
they must confess.

And if they cannot provide written rationale,
they are already operating outside lawful bounds.

✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
📧 director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com

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I’m High Risk, Not High Drama — Leave Me Alone So I Can Breathe

 📮 SWANK Dispatch: My Asthma Is Not a Crime — But Your Harassment Might Be

🗓️ 30 June 2020

Filed Under: asthma discrimination, shielding violation, health harassment, false accusations, community hostility, pandemic vulnerability, NHS guidance ignored, public health failure, legal retaliation

“My diagnosis is severe eosinophilic asthma.
Not ‘difficult mother.’ Not ‘suspicious parent.’
Just: a person who cannot survive your ignorance.”
— A Mother Documenting Medical Fact as Legal Shield

This sharply articulated letter by Polly Chromatic, addressed to the Department of Social Development, is not merely a declaration of illness — it is a legally grounded plea for respect, space, and air.

It outlines her decades-long history with a life-threatening medical condition — severe eosinophilic asthma — and how local hostility, institutional ignorance, and social work overreach have placed her and her children at risk.

🧾 I. The Medical Facts Are Not Up for Debate

From the NHS (UK) and CDC (USA):

  • Polly is clinically extremely vulnerable (high risk)

  • She is on continuous oral steroids (prednisone)

  • Shielding guidance includes:

    • No uninvited visitors

    • Avoidance of all triggers (disinfectants, perfumes, stress, smoke, etc.)

    • Calm environments essential for asthma control

⚠️ II. What the Department Has Done Instead

  • Ignored shielding protocol

  • Repeatedly allowed false child abuse allegations based on lifestyle accommodations (no smoking, no toxic products, etc.)

  • Permitted harassment from neighbours who resist her boundaries

  • Created stressful encounters with social workers and truancy officers during a global respiratory pandemic

  • Continued to operate in a way that increases her risk of hospitalisation or death

🧠 III. Clarifying the Actual Issue

This is not about parenting.
This is not about truancy.
This is not about attitude.

This is about:

  • Medical discrimination

  • Public misunderstanding of asthma

  • Systemic punishment of individuals who enforce their own health boundaries

  • Abuse of statutory resources to pursue false claims while ignoring medical law

📌 Final Point:

“False allegations of child abuse are a crime.”

And so is ignoring a medically documented need for safety.
This letter doesn’t ask for sympathy.
It demands legal and ethical conduct — with the evidence attached.


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