PC67578: On the Curious Tendency to Call Logistics “Safeguarding”
Contact Instability, Disability Context, and the Cost of Administrative Drift
SWANK Evidentiary Catalogue — Core Procedural Addendum
This document records a period in which contact was repeatedly altered, reduced, or disrupted for logistical reasons, despite contemporaneous records confirming that contact itself was safe, positive, and beneficial.
Filed for the Central Family Court in January 2026, the addendum places those disruptions within a disability and health context, noting the predictable welfare impact of prolonged uncertainty, disrupted routine, and unplanned transitions.
The record does not allege risk.
It documents absence of risk.
It does not speculate on motive.
It records effect.
Included in the file:
- a chronological account of contact changes,
- contemporaneous professional observations during contact,
- analysis of cumulative welfare impact in a disability context,
- and the distinction between safeguarding necessity and administrative inconvenience.
Written in SWANK’s restrained legal-aesthetic style, the document is suitable for:
- IRH and family court bundles,
- proportionality and welfare analysis,
- complaints escalation and oversight review,
- or institutional audit and record preservation.
Tone: Clinical, observational, deliberately unemotional
Function: Welfare analysis through documentation
Status: Filed so instability is not later reframed as inevitability
⟡ Some disruptions are unavoidable.
⟡ Others are documented.
⟡ This one is the latter.
A procedural addendum documenting repeated contact instability and its cumulative welfare impact within a disability and health context, in the absence of any identified safeguarding risk. The file preserves a chronological record distinguishing administrative disruption from genuine welfare necessity, and records the predictable consequences of prolonged uncertainty and disrupted routine. Filed to ensure the record reflects effect, not reinterpretation.