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Children’s rights campaigners urged the Government yesterday not to push on with a proposed legal change that they claimed would erode the right of vulnerable youngsters to independent legal representation in court. Katie Richards, a family law exper...

An Opposition MP has accused the Government of a rush to table a Bill in Parliament that “seeks to reduce the level of support for Bermudian children in the court system”. Scott Pearman, the shadow legal affairs minister, criticised the Progressive L...

A social worker is to sue the Government for more than $2.6 million over a failure to pay for her work as an independent advocate for children in court. Lawyers for Tiffanne Thomas have filed a civil action against the Attorney-General and Accountant...

A child welfare campaigner said yesterday that the “heart-wrenching” case of a 15-year-old girl exiled to an overseas institution for three years without any say in the decision highlighted the need for vulnerable children to be given a voice. The te...

Police confirmed yesterday officers have launched an investigation into a report of a sex assault at a children’s home. A police spokesman said: “The Bermuda Police Service is aware of an incident that took place at a governmental residential care fa...

An erosion of the right of vulnerable children to have independent legal representation in court would be “yet another attack on the human rights of its citizens by the Government”, the Human Rights Commission warned yesterday. Tawana Tannock, chairw...

The Government is proposing a change to the law aimed at eroding the rights of children to have independent legal representation in court, it has been claimed. An anonymous source shared with The Royal Gazette a copy of a draft Bill, titled the Child...

A woman exiled to an overseas institution by the Family Court when she was a child said yesterday she had no say in the decision and suffered “trauma” while abroad. The woman said: “I was blindsided. I didn’t know nothing about it. They didn’t ask me...

Almost 50 vulnerable Bermudian children were sent to overseas institutions in the past five years without their wishes being taken into account by the courts, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Statistics released under public access to information legisl...

Renovation work at a children’s home appears to have been at a standstill for more than 18 months, with at-risk youngsters housed instead in former administrative offices. The Youth Development Centre closed temporarily at the end of March last year ...