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An American reform school where boys from Bermuda were sent for more than 35 years has been shut down for mistreatment and abuse of children. Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania was told by state authorities there had been a string of violations of re...

A woman’s three children were separated and sent overseas to a string of different institutions for up to seven years without any legal representation, she has revealed. The mother said the Department of Child and Family Services wanted to place the ...

A woman sent overseas for residential care when she was aged just 12 said the move felt like a punishment and left her unprepared for adult life back home. She explained that her only childhood problems were emotional and that she was “tricked” on to...

Dear Sir, In all of the articles about at-risk children, in all of the quotations from people over the past year, I don’t ever remember seeing the word “parents”. Why did the parents not take the primary position regarding their children? Where were ...

A weeklong series of events designed to promote childhood early development was launched yesterday. The Week of the Young Child welcomed teachers, caregivers, children, parents and passers-by to an opening ceremony on the steps of City Hall. Diallo R...

Children from Bermuda have been sent to schools and institutions overseas for decades when social workers here deem them to have exhausted all available local services. Health minister Kim Wilson told MPs last month that children who go abroad for “t...

Vulnerable children are likely to continue to be sent abroad without any legal representation, according to Shadow Attorney-General Scott Pearman. Mr Pearman said despite the Government allocating $242,000 in this year’s Budget for independent advoca...

A children’s advocate said yesterday that a scheme for government staff to visit vulnerable youngsters placed in overseas schools was “woefully inadequate”. Tiffanne Thomas believed the level of contact could lead to feelings of abandonment and knew ...

Vulnerable boys from Bermuda were for decades sent to an American reform school now under investigation for alleged child abuse and cover-ups. The children went to Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania at the request of the island’s Department of Child ...

On March 16, I had the privilege to participate in what I consider a “Community of Practice” on early childhood education. The Early Childhood Symposium, spearheaded by Penny Saltus, of Union Square Productions in partnership with the Child Developme...

A dream came true for a little girl from America with a life-threatening heart disease who wanted to play her violin in Bermuda. Lilly Kohl, 7, was flown to the island from her home in Chicago by children’s charity Make-A-Wish Foundation to perform w...