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A care home for girls is “not a prison”, the Government said yesterday. The Ministry of Legal Affairs spoke out on the Department of Child & and Family Services’ Brangman Home, in Smith’s, after “recent public discussion” on the institution. The mini...

Online safety for children and adults will be discussed at an event taking place this week. Digital Safety for Families will be held at Bermuda College tomorrow evening, Wednesday January 29. It is being put on by The TLC Group. Topics to be discuss...

A top barrister involved in some of Britain’s most prominent child protection cases has praised the Government for its appointment of a litigation guardians panel. Cyrus Larizadeh QC, who visited the island twice last year to talk to members of the B...

In the Progressive Labour Party’s 2017 election platform, our party promised to extend paid maternity leave and introduce paid paternity leave. Recently, in the House of Assembly, I was proud to see that promised fulfilled with the passage of the Gov...

The recent passing of the Employment [Maternity Leave Extension and Paternity Leave] Amendment Act is to be celebrated. This reflects recognition that the first few months of a child’s life are critical to attachment and bonding in families. The Empl...

An Opposition MP called on the Government to act over “scandal after scandal after scandal” at the Department of Child and Family Services. Scott Pearman, the shadow legal affairs minister, applauded The Royal Gazette’s Who Cares? series about how th...

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 march designed to encourage men to become role models for schoolchildren has the backing of education authorities, the Government said yesterday. A spokeswoman for the Government said: “The Department of Education has confirmed that Mr Crockwell d...

A march designed to encourage men to become role models for schoolchildren has the backing of education authorities, the Government said today. A spokeswoman for the Government said: “The Department of Education has confirmed that Mr Crockwell did re...

The Ministry of Legal Affairs wishes to provide the community with accurate information regarding the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS). The stories published in The Royal Gazette as it relates to old Psycho-Ed and Residential Treatment...

At 13, he thought he was going to Disney World — but instead was flown overseas for a year in therapy. At 15, he should have been in a children’s home — but was “jailed” for months at the Co-Ed in St George’s despite never being convicted of a crime....

An investigation into the death of a teenage Bermudian girl in an American treatment centre should be independent, an Opposition MP said yesterday. But the Government would not confirm who would carry out inquiries after the 16-year-old died on Satur...