⟡ “What Is Social Work England For, If Not This?” ⟡
Formal complaint to the Professional Standards Authority for SWE’s failure to investigate blatant misconduct, retaliation, and disability discrimination
Filed: 23 April 2025
Reference: SWANK/SWE-PSA/REGULATORY-FAILURE-HORNAL
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Submission to PSA requesting investigation into Social Work England’s inaction despite detailed misconduct reports against Kirsty Hornal
I. What Happened
On 23 April 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a formal complaint to the Professional Standards Authority (PSA)concerning Social Work England’s failure to investigate multiple well-evidenced allegations of professional misconduct by Kirsty Hornal.
The submission followed nearly a year of SWE inaction in response to complaints documenting:
Retaliation after a safeguarding case collapsed without findings
Fabricated allegations in a formal PLO letter
Documented disability discrimination and refusal to implement accommodations
Misrepresentation of a child’s statement
Psychological harassment backed by statutory authority
Despite psychiatric and medical evidence, a full chronology, and multiple formal letters, SWE has refused to escalate the matter. Hornal remains in post, continuing to exert power over the family she harmed.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
Procedural breaches: Social Work England’s failure to investigate despite clear grounds under Fitness to Practise
Human impact: Sustained mental health harm, institutional retraumatisation, and unrelieved surveillance
Power dynamics: A regulator protecting the regulated — while the victim remains under scrutiny
Institutional failure: SWE’s silence transformed complicity into a policy position
Unacceptable conduct: Allowing a social worker to escalate retaliation after a police report without oversight
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because when a regulator ignores psychiatric records, police reports, PLO abuse, and medical documentation — it’s not negligence. It’s endorsement.
Because this wasn’t one complaint. It was an archive.
Because “not escalated under FTP” is no longer a procedural detail. It’s a euphemism for professional immunity.
Because this entry is about more than Hornal. It’s about the system that kept her in uniform.
And if the PSA doesn’t respond — the PHSO will.
IV. Violations
Professional Standards Authority Remit – failure to ensure regulatory bodies uphold public protection and fair process
Social Work England Statutory Duties, under the Children and Social Work Act 2017 – failure to act on risks to the public
Equality Act 2010, Section 27 – victimisation following protected disability disclosure
Human Rights Act 1998, Article 8 – exposure to retaliatory interference with family life
Principles of Public Law – maladministration, procedural unfairness, and regulatory inertia
V. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept that Fitness to Practise is a decorative process.
We do not accept that a social worker who retaliates post-litigation is still fit for practice.
We do not accept that silence from a regulator is anything but permission.
SWANK considers this a matter of institutional protectionism — and will escalate, archive, and publish until action is taken.
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