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Children as young as 9 have been sent to a psychiatric hospital some 2,500 miles away for clinical assessments. A spokeswoman for the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute confirmed the hospital had examined 29 of the island’s minors in the...

A Bermudian girl sent to a residential institution in Connecticut was one of the school’s “success stories”, its president has claimed. Richard Chorney, the chief executive of Grove School, Madison, said he remembered one child from the island. He ad...

A top child protection agency in the United States said that Bermuda faced an “additional burden” in the monitoring of overseas residential programmes used for the island’s young people because of its distance from the institutions. Christine James-B...

Performances by ten young people won them the chance to showcase their talents in the next round of a music and singing contest. They will take part in the On Stage competition as part of the Bermuda Festival in February. Vocalists Dakota Tucker, Eli...

Schoolboys aged just 14 and 15 were locked up at the Co-Ed Facility as recently as this year despite laws designed to prevent the detention of children unless in exceptional circumstances. Ian Kawaley, a former Chief Justice, ruled in 2012 that a sen...

A mother of three feared for her 17-year-old son when she learnt that a Bermudian had died at a treatment institution in the US. The woman said she was “horrified” to read about a teenager who died at a residential facility in Utah last month — the s...

Lawyers have been given permission to proceed with a court case launched on behalf of a five-year-old boy who it was claimed had been denied legal protection through a failure to fund independent court representation for him. Martha Dismont, for the ...

A young woman who spent more than a year in a Utah residential institution said the experience was a good influence on her life. The 27-year-old revealed that she enjoyed theatre and rafting trips as part of her time at Moonridge Academy in Utah when...

A 49-year-old mother said youngsters sent for treatment overseas returned to Bermuda “traumatised”. She explained that two of her children spent time in US institutions when they were teenagers and her daughter claimed she was sexually abused by a co...

A professional services firm has been recruited to help deliver a joint vision for a healthier Bermuda, the Government announced last night. KMPG will provide project management as the island’s “health strategy” is updated. It came as public consulta...