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The Bicycle Addendum
Or, How Four Children Were Deprived of Joy While the Local Authority Held the Chains to Their Handlebars
Filed: 6 August 2025
Reference Code: SWK-BICYCLES-DIGNITY-2025-08
PDF Filename: 2025-08-05_Addendum_BicycleAccess_WelfareDeviation.pdf
One-Line Summary: Polly Chromatic challenges the Local Authority’s absurd failure to provide bicycles — and demands either wheels or reunification.
I. What Happened
In a perfectly preventable display of bureaucratic absurdity, all four of Polly Chromatic’s children — removed from their home under the guise of safeguarding — have now been denied even the most basic of childhood freedoms: the ability to ride a bike.
Yes, bicycles. Two wheels, fresh air, harmless joy.
Not cars. Not knives. Not contraband. Bicycles.
Each child has asked — more than once — to cycle again.
And each time, they are met not with accommodation, but with silence.
This is not oversight.
It is a petty assertion of control.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
That the Local Authority has stripped the children of developmental normalcy
That they have made no attempt to replicate the basic recreational activities present in the family home
That children who previously cycled freely are now denied a simple, self-affirming act of movement
That this is not about safety — but about punishment by omission
In Polly’s words:
“In my home, my children do not wait months for what they need or want. They get it immediately — because they are loved.”
To deny bikes is to deny agency, pleasure, and muscle memory.
And Westminster calls it care.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because recreational freedom is not a luxury — it is a right.
Because bicycle access is not about toys — it is about dignity.
Because when the state removes children, it is required by law to replicate — not downgrade — their standard of living.
Because this is not just about bicycles. It’s about who gets to decide what joy looks like.
IV. Violations
Children Act 1989 – Section 22(3)(a) – Duty to promote and safeguard each child’s welfare
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Article 31 – Right to play, leisure, and recreation
Article 8 ECHR – Interference with normal family life and routines
Equality and Non-Discrimination Principles – Punitive withholding based on disability and lawful refusal to engage verbally
V. SWANK’s Position
We consider this addendum the handlebars of the entire case — a seemingly small point that reveals everything:
When a Local Authority cannot even provide a child with a bike —
but can remove them with police,
place them in a more dangerous area,
ignore their journaled disclosures,
and silence their mother —
then safeguarding is no longer the word for what they are doing.
It is deprivation by decree.
It is cruelty disguised as policy.
And it is not lawful.
If Westminster will not accommodate the simple freedom of four children on bikes,
then it is time to return them to the person who always has.
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