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They Didn’t Deny the Records. They Just Didn’t Send Them.


⟡ You Withheld the Records. We Filed the Complaint. ⟡
“Ten days passed. No files appeared. So we escalated to the regulator.”

Filed: 17 June 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/ICO-01
📎 Download PDF – 2025-06-17_SWANK_ICOComplaint_Westminster_AuditNonResponse_DisabilityBreach.pdf
Formal complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office citing Westminster’s failure to comply with legal audit SWL/AUD-1, and the continued obstruction of data access and disability-adjusted communication.

I. What Happened

On 6 June 2025, SWANK London Ltd. served Audit SWL/AUD-1 to Westminster Children’s Services.
The audit demanded records relating to placement decisions, third-party agency involvement, reunification protocols, and evidence of retaliatory safeguarding activity.

The council was granted 10 calendar days to respond.
No records were provided.
No exemption was claimed.
No legal justification was submitted.

On 16 June 2025, a formal follow-up letter was served.
Still, no response.

As of 17 June 2025, the matter has been referred to the Information Commissioner’s Office.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • That Westminster refused to comply with a statutory data request issued in the public interest

  • That this refusal violates the Data Protection Act 2018 and Freedom of Information Act 2000

  • That the delay was not explained, defended, or acknowledged — only enacted

  • That the parent’s written-only communication requirement, made on medical grounds, was again ignored

  • That safeguarding actions continued while records were being deliberately withheld

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because in legal terms, silence is non-compliance.
Because delay is not neutrality — it’s strategy.

And because when an audit clock runs out, and the records are still locked,
you don’t wait for a reply. You write to the regulator.

IV. Violations

  • Data Protection Act 2018 – Subject Access Rights and Processing Failure

  • Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Section 10 (Time for Compliance), Section 17 (Refusal of Request)

  • Equality Act 2010 – Sections 20 and 27
    Failure to honour written communication adjustment; procedural retaliation

  • Children Act 1989 / 2004
    Active obstruction of parent access to welfare-critical records

V. SWANK’s Position

They didn’t claim an exemption.
They didn’t acknowledge the deadline.
They didn’t respond to the file.

So we filed somewhere else.

This wasn’t a delay.
It was defiance —
And now it’s a regulatory submission.



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