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Family Centre is to move to remote access to help care for its clients despite the Covid-19 crisis. Martha Dismont, the charity’s executive director, said the change, which will start tomorrow, would protect staff as well as those who use its service...

A 14-year-old girl missing from a government care home for 12 days was found yesterday. Police said that the teenager had been returned to the care of the Department of Child and Family Services. The Royal Gazette has chosen not to name the child, a...

The worried mom of a schoolgirl missing for 12 days yesterday told the 14-year-old that she was “dearly” loved and begged her to come home. Matasha Winters urged teenager Destiny Winters to return after she left a Government care home without permiss...

Police warned yesterday of a “potential imminent risk” to a 14-year-old girl missing from a care home for 11 days. Destiny Winters was thought to be with an older man when she was spotted last Sunday as she travelled in and out of St George’s by bus....

A 14-year-old girl in the care of the island’s child protection agency who went missing for the fourth time in less than two months has been traced, police said tonight. Police appealed again yesterday for the public’s help to find the girl less than...

A mother claimed yesterday that her teenage daughter’s referral by Bermuda’s child protection services to a US treatment centre was a “Band-Aid” measure after the young girl died at the overseas facility. She wanted to know what steps were taken befo...

A 16-year-old girl sent for overseas treatment under a care order from government child protection services has died at a treatment centre in the United States, it was revealed yesterday. It is understood the teenager died at a secure treatment centr...

A proposal that financial assistance could be clawed back from the estates of dead recipients would penalise families, the head of a charity said yesterday. Martha Dismont, the executive director of Family Centre, said the organisation feared a bid t...

The first phase of a government plan to improve standards in care homes was approved yesterday in the Senate. Junior health minister Crystal Caesar said the Residential Care Homes and Nursing Homes Amendment Act 2017 would help to protect people from...

The cost of financial assistance will be tackled by a new working group. Zane DeSilva, Minister of Social Development and Sport, said yesterday that the current $1-million-per-week cost of the programme was unsustainable and “must be reduced”. Mr D...

Child and Family Services has been budgeted $15.634 million for 2017-18, down 2 per cent on the previous fiscal year, according to Nandi Outerbridge, the Minister of Social Development and Sport. Mrs Outerbridge began her overview of the department w...

It has been two years since the prospect was raised for Luke Caines, prematurely born and severely disabled, to have a life outside of hospital. Doctors believed that Mr Caines, who is quadriplegic as a result of cerebral palsy, would not even surviv...