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World Children’s Day is celebrated annually on November 20. This was the date in 1959 when the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child. On the same day in 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention...

The Inter-Agency Committee for Children and Families welcomes the Government’s 2020 Throne Speech. From early in the speech and throughout, the Government makes a clear commitment to social priorities. In 2014, the IAC conducted a comprehensive Asse...

The Department of Child and Family Services will move to new offices next week. The department, which was based at Milner House and Magnolia Place on Victoria Street, will transfer to 131 Front Street from Tuesday. The Victoria Street headquarters wi...

A task force has been assembled to help the island’s most vulnerable people weather the Covid-19 storm, the Premier said tonight. David Burt added that the Government’s first course of action “was to identify the impact and determine what is required...

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...