“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

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

⟡ Chromatic v Westminster: When Silence Was a Strategy ⟡


⟡ “They Escalated to PLO, But Forgot to Answer the SAR.” ⟡
Ombudsman complaint documenting disability discrimination, procedural sabotage, and data protection breach by Westminster City Council

Filed: 22 April 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/LGO-COMPLAINT-PLO-DISCRIMINATION
📎 Download PDF – 2025-04-22_SWANK_LGOComplaint_Westminster_DisabilitySARProceduralBreach.pdf
Formal complaint to the LGSCO citing systemic failures by Westminster Children’s Services under the Equality Act and UK GDPR

I. What Happened

On 22 April 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a detailed complaint to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, outlining four intersecting violations by Westminster City Council’s Children’s Services:

  1. Disability discrimination: Written-only communication requests ignored despite medical certification, leading to physical harm

  2. Procedural sabotage: No outcome report issued after a year of Child in Need assessments, then sudden escalation to PLO

  3. Data protection breach: A Subject Access Request (SAR) submitted under UK GDPR was unlawfully delayed past deadline

  4. Retaliation and opacity: Harassment complaints against social worker Kirsty Hornal were closed without written explanation

The document makes it clear: this wasn’t bureaucratic error. It was calculated obfuscation — designed to isolate, exhaust, and escalate.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Procedural breaches: No closure report for CIN process; unlawful PLO escalation; failure to respond to SAR

  • Human impact: Respiratory flare-ups, psychological deterioration, and intensified legal distress

  • Power dynamics: Council forcing escalation while denying the family access to evidence and due process

  • Institutional failure: Collapsing internal accountability paired with administrative retaliation

  • Unacceptable conduct: Using safeguarding pathways to punish lawful resistance, not protect children

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because SARs are not optional.
Because public law fairness is not a formality.
Because retaliating against a disabled mother for asserting her rights isn’t just wrong — it’s a pattern.
Because you can’t demand verbal compliance when the medical file says “no voice.”
And because when the council escalates without explaining the last escalation, it ceases to be protection — and becomes persecution.

This wasn’t negligence.
This was deliberate legal erosion, wrapped in child protection rhetoric.

IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 20 & 27 – failure to make adjustments and retaliatory conduct following protected acts

  • UK GDPR / Data Protection Act 2018, Sections 45–54 – unlawful failure to respond to SAR within the required time

  • Children Act 1989, Section 17 – misapplication of safeguarding escalation without procedural closure

  • Working Together to Safeguard Children (2018) – failure to document, inform, or involve

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 6 & 8 – denial of due process and unjustified interference with family life

V. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept that safeguarding frameworks can be weaponised to punish non-compliance.
We do not accept that access to personal data can be delayed to gain legal advantage.
We do not accept that omitting a case outcome is a clerical oversight.

This complaint is not a request. It is a jurisdictional reprimand — logged, timestamped, and filed for systemic review.

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Cooperation Is Not a Performance. It’s a Right — And I Exercised It.


⟡ “Refusing Abuse Is Not Refusing to Cooperate” ⟡
A formal statement of participation, legal boundaries, and what it really means to engage — lawfully, strategically, and with proof.

Filed: 20 April 2025
Reference: SWANK/WCC/PLO-12
📎 Download PDF – 2025-04-20_SWANK_Letter_Westminster_PLOResponse_ClarifyingCooperation.pdf
Formal letter from Polly Chromatic to Kirsty Hornal rebutting any suggestion of “non-engagement.” The letter reaffirms written-only communication, clarifies lawful refusals, and asserts the parent’s ongoing cooperation — on legal, not coercive, terms.

I. What Happened

By 20 April 2025, Westminster had already escalated safeguarding processes in retaliation for complaint. Now, they were reframing that retaliation as a problem with parental cooperation. This letter shuts that narrative down — thoroughly, respectfully, and legally.

Polly Chromatic:

  • Reiterates written-only communication based on medical advice

  • Clarifies the basis for declining verbal conversations and invasive tests

  • Confirms past and current participation — in writing, with evidence

  • Warns that misrepresenting these actions would constitute procedural misconduct

  • Demands all correspondence and adjustments be included in Westminster’s internal record

It is a calm but firm declaration: non-verbal ≠ non-cooperative.

II. What the Letter Establishes

  • Disability adjustments are not barriers to cooperation — they are the lawful format of it

  • Refusing unlawful or unsafe procedures is not obstruction — it’s protection

  • Westminster’s prior contact, meetings, and ongoing emails confirm full engagement

  • The narrative of “non-engagement” is a deliberate distortion with legal consequences

  • Any omission of these facts in official records will be treated as evidence manipulation

III. Why SWANK Filed It

This letter exists for one reason: because Westminster has shown it will twist compliance into resistance when it suits them. SWANK archived this file to ensure that when they claim the parent refused to cooperate, the truth — and the evidence — will already be on record.

SWANK filed this to:

  • Defend against the misuse of “non-cooperation” as a procedural weapon

  • Preemptively correct the record with written confirmation of engagement

  • Assert legal participation on grounds of disability rights and lawful boundary-setting

IV. Violations (If Ignored or Misrepresented)

  • Equality Act 2010 – Sections 20, 27 (adjustments and retaliation)

  • Human Rights Act 1998 – Article 8 (family life), Article 14 (discrimination)

  • Social Work England Standards – Truthfulness in recordkeeping, respect for client rights

  • UK GDPR – Inaccurate or omitted data in official records

  • Children Act 1989 – Misuse of safeguarding frameworks and harm through administrative dishonesty

V. SWANK’s Position

Refusing a test is not refusing to engage. Declining to speak is not silence. The law is not verbal. And compliance is not owed — especially not when coercion is dressed as concern.

SWANK London Ltd. demands:

  • Full correction of all Westminster records that refer to “non-cooperation”

  • Explicit inclusion of this letter in all internal assessments and review panels

  • Regulatory investigation if any officer continues to misstate the family’s position

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⟡ Chromatic v SWE: A Regulator Without Teeth Is a Threat ⟡


⟡ “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
📎 Download PDF – 2025-04-23_SWANK_Complaint_PSA_SWEFailure_HornalMisconduct.pdf
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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⟡ Chromatic v Hornal: When Breathing Was Misread as Belligerence ⟡


⟡ “I Can’t Breathe, But You’re Offended I Don’t Like Your Tone?” ⟡
Formal communication to WCC cataloguing 16 clinical patterns of hostility triggered by social worker conduct during respiratory disability

Filed: 13 January 2025
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/HOSTILITY-PATTERNS-WARNING
📎 Download PDF – 2025-01-13_SWANK_Email_Hornal_HostileConductCatalogue.pdf
An annotated list of hostile behaviors sent to Kirsty Hornal to document the relationship between social work aggression and medically triggered harm

I. What Happened

On 13 January 2025, Polly Chromatic sent a formal written message to Westminster Children’s Services, specifically addressing social worker Kirsty Hornal, to assert boundaries regarding hostile behavior.

Rather than engage in defensive back-and-forth, Polly submitted a taxonomical breakdown of hostility — listing 16 distinct behavioral categories ranging from verbal aggression and dismissiveness to sabotage, sarcasm, and refusal to communicate. Each was cross-referenced with its psychological impact, showing how such behaviors exacerbate asthma, muscle tension dysphonia, and PTSD symptoms.

It wasn’t just an objection. It was a diagnostic framework — presented in pure composure, and mailed to the institution that caused it.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Procedural breaches: Continued verbal or tonal hostility despite disability-based written-only communication requests

  • Human impact: Breathing difficulty, vocal injury, panic symptoms, and post-traumatic activation

  • Power dynamics: The person with no voice is framed as aggressive — while the aggressors remain unnamed

  • Institutional failure: Refusal to understand trauma as physiological; refusal to recognise tone as violence

  • Unacceptable conduct: Penalising someone for resisting verbal engagement when verbal engagement is itself the harm

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because asserting medical boundaries isn’t rudeness.
Because writing down the names of hostile behaviors doesn’t make you difficult — it makes you a record-keeper.
Because when institutions pretend they don’t know why someone can’t breathe, the archive will remind them:
You knew.
You were told.
You were catalogued.

This wasn’t a complaint. It was a classification.

IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Section 20 – failure to implement reasonable adjustments, including verbal-exempt access

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Articles 3 & 8 – degrading treatment; psychological and physiological violation of bodily autonomy

  • Social Work England Professional Standards, 1.3, 5.1 – failure to do no harm; failure to prevent distress

  • Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Section 2 – emotional and respiratory health risks ignored by professionals

V. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept that kindness must be earned through calmness when calmness is physically impossible.
We do not accept that “communication” means submission.
We do not accept that institutions can cause injury with a tone and then claim innocence with a shrug.

This wasn’t about hostility.
This was about health.
And it is now documented — with clinical precision.

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⟡ Chromatic v NHS: Silence Misread as Crime ⟡


⟡ “You Can’t Claim I Was ‘Erratic’ If I Physically Can’t Speak.” ⟡
Email documenting hospital bullying, asthma-related discrimination, and intent to sue for institutional neglect

Filed: 24 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER-NHS/HOSPITAL-ABUSE-DISPUTE
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-24_SWANK_Email_HospitalAbuse_LegalThreatAgainstNHS.pdf
Email to WCC officials and legal counsel outlining abuse in A&E settings and declaring intent to pursue legal action over repeated neglect

I. What Happened

On 24 November 2024, Polly Chromatic emailed Westminster social work leadership and her legal team in response to continued hospital bullying and misrepresentation during respiratory crises.

She highlighted that across multiple hospitals — including St Thomas’ and St Mary’s — staff blamed her for the conduct of others, dismissed her communication limitations, and categorised her as "erratic" despite clear evidence that she could not physically speak due to disability.

The message made one thing clear: the problem was not miscommunication — it was systemic contempt for asthma patients, particularly disabled mothers and their children.

Polly concluded her message with a legal warning: “I’m going to sue them. It’s child neglect.”

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Procedural breaches: Repeated denial of asthma treatment; misclassification of disability responses as behaviour

  • Human impact: Exacerbated respiratory symptoms, trauma to children, destabilised medical routines

  • Power dynamics: Disabled woman framed as “aggressive” or “erratic” for asserting need for basic medical care

  • Institutional failure: Failure to de-escalate, accommodate, or interpret documented respiratory limitations

  • Unacceptable conduct: Hospitals weaponising disbelief and making the patient responsible for clinical dysfunction

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because “I can’t argue” is not hostility — it’s breath preservation.
Because accusing a non-verbal disabled mother of aggression is not just inaccurate — it’s abusive.
Because A&E services that confuse composure with defiance are not safe for anyone with chronic illness.
Because every time a mother with asthma has to email the hospital to correct their version of her silence, something is structurally wrong.

This wasn’t a breakdown in communication.
It was a refusal to recognise silence as legitimate.

IV. Violations

  • Equality Act 2010, Sections 15 & 20 – discrimination arising from disability; failure to accommodate communication limitations

  • Children Act 1989, Section 17 – failure to safeguard children's health during acute respiratory episodes

  • Human Rights Act 1998, Article 3 & 8 – degrading treatment; interference with family life and medical privacy

  • NHS Constitution, Right to Respect – right to be heard, believed, and treated without humiliation

V. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept that medical disbelief is a diagnosis.
We do not accept that respiratory illness is treated as inconvenience.
We do not accept that child neglect can be redirected toward the mother when it originates from the institution.

This wasn’t mislabelled. It was misused.
And now, it is part of the archive — and the case law.

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