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In re Chromatic v. Ofsted, Regarding the Request for Letter-Writing Contact and the Cold War Between Care and Correspondence
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Filed: 7 July 2025
Reference Code: SWL-EX-0626-OFSTED-LETTERS
Court File Name: 2025-06-26_SWANK_Request_LetterWritingContact_PostalExchange_WithChildren
1-line summary: Request for children to receive letters and gifts during separation met with procedural disclaimers and response delay warnings.
I. What Happened
On 26 June 2025, Polly Chromatic submitted a written request to Westminster Children’s Services, seeking to initiate a simple, humane form of contact: the postal exchange of letters, bracelets, and personal items with her four children — then unlawfully removed and institutionally restricted.
The request was echoed to oversight bodies.
Ofsted replied with a template:
School complaints take 30 days.
Don’t email again.
Dial 999 if you think harm is urgent.
No acknowledgment of emotional need.
No comment on the deprivation of communication.
No ethical curiosity about why a mother must ask to send letters.
II. What the Request Establishes
That the mother was denied even indirect emotional contact
That children were withheld not only physically, but postally
That the request was made respectfully and procedurally
That the state ignored it — then blamed the format, not the plea
A letter is not a legal filing.
But in this context, it is a restoration of dignity.
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because the right to write to one’s child is so elemental, so achingly basic, that its denial is a moral index in itself.
Because Ofsted’s reply — gloved in civility, swaddled in disclaimers, and laced with latent threat (“do not send multiple emails”) — is a masterclass in regulatory indifference.
SWANK records this not to request compliance.
We no longer request.
We log.
IV. Violations and Implications
Emotional neglect via communication suppression
Denial of non-contact family exchange during state-induced separation
Failure of regulatory response amid disability-flagged safeguarding
Disengagement from trauma-alleviating remedies, despite full notice
If a mother must petition to send a bracelet — the system is not protective.
It is punitive.
V. SWANK’s Position
This exchange is emblematic.
Not of concern — but of compliance with cruelty.
The institutions involved here could not manage the radical ethical burden of letting children receive drawings from their mother.
Instead, they issued a warning about inbox overflow.
Let it be known:
The letters will be sent.
The archive will receive them, if no one else will.
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