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The protection of children is expected to be discussed at the next meeting of Overseas Territories leaders, Government House revealed yesterday. Government House said that child safeguarding was a high priority and one that had been “consistent” amon...

An overseas territory stopped sending children with behavioural issues to residential centres abroad more than a decade ago because young people struggled to return to the communities they left behind. Laurel Freeman, a social worker in the British V...

A couple asked a court to consider whether they should be awarded compensation after their three-year-old son was unlawfully seized by police from their home on the instructions of the island’s child protection agency. The American pair sought unspec...

Children’s groups hope the Government will provide more information about the newly established panel of litigation guardians. They said yesterday that questions about funding and the selection process remained unanswered. Scott Pearman, the shadow l...

A lawyer who worked pro bono in India, South Africa and the United States was urged to keep up the practice when he was Called to the Bermuda Bar this week. Lewis Preston helped asylum seekers as part of his volunteer work at the start of his career....

Pupils from senior schools told the Governor and his guests about the importance of freedom of expression on International Human Rights Day. The 13 teenagers were invited to Government House for a youth forum on Tuesday to highlight the leadership ro...

Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years. As far back as at least 1984 — and until 2017 — boys from Bermuda were sent to the embattled Glen Mills Scho...

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...