⟡ ADDENDUM: On Grandparent Contact and Local Authority Failures ⟡
“The Erasure of Intergenerational Bonds: On Phantom Facilitation and State-Created Deprivation”
Filed: 15 September 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/ADDENDUM-NANA-001
Download PDF: 2025-09-15_Addendum_Nana001.pdf
Summary: Addendum documenting Westminster’s failure to facilitate lawful grandparent contact, causing emotional harm and procedural neglect.
I. What Happened
• The maternal grandmother confirmed weekly availability at four fixed times (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. EST).
• Despite her proactive availability, the Local Authority failed to organise consistent sessions.
• As of filing, three consecutive weeks have passed without grandmother contact, due solely to Westminster’s inconsistency.
II. What the Addendum Establishes
• Parental and Family Support — grandmother is willing, available, and committed.
• Institutional Neglect — LA failure unlawfully disrupts family bonds.
• Emotional Harm — children denied stability, reassurance, and intergenerational care.
• Displacement of Duty — statutory duties improperly shifted onto family members.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
• Legal relevance: failure to facilitate grandparent contact breaches statutory duties.
• Oversight value: exposes neglect disguised as neutral oversight.
• Historical preservation: records a three-week deprivation caused by institutional irresponsibility.
• Policy precedent: confirms administrative disarray is not lawful justification for restricting contact.
IV. Applicable Standards & Violations
Domestic Law
• Children Act 1989, Sections 1, 22(3)(a), 34 — welfare and contact duties breached.
• Children Act 2004, Section 11 — safeguarding duty violated by failure to facilitate.
Human Rights
• Article 3 ECHR — emotional deprivation amounts to degrading treatment.
• Article 6 ECHR — fairness undermined by lack of scheduling.
• Article 8 ECHR — family life obstructed by omission.
• Article 14 ECHR — discriminatory disregard for international family contact.
• UNCRC Articles 9, 12, 18 — children denied lawful contact, voice, and intergenerational support.
Academic & Oversight Authority
• Bromley’s Family Law — contact is a child’s right, not LA discretion.
• Bromley on Extended Family — intergenerational ties central to welfare.
• Ofsted fostering standards — duty to promote family contact breached.
• SWE Standards & Working Together (2018) — integrity and timeliness absent.
V. SWANK’s Position
This is not safeguarding.
This is the procedural erasure of a grandmother.
We do not accept three-week deprivations disguised as oversight.
We reject institutional neglect as lawful facilitation.
We will document the State’s obstruction of intergenerational bonds.
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