An Opposition MP is calling for an urgent overhaul to address the lack of a “safety net” for struggling young adults with traumatic family backgrounds.
Susan Ja...
An Opposition MP is calling for an urgent overhaul to addres...
The mother of a teenager who took her own life at an American treatment centre said she had “no real answers” about what happened to her daughter eight months a...
The mother of a teenager who took her own life at an America...
A teenager was remembered on what would have been her 18th birthday yesterday by a fundraising effort to help prevent young suicide.
Johnita Simons launched the...
A teenager was remembered on what would have been her 18th b...
Young people who get too old for the island’s care system could soon be supported by a halfway house to help them deal with the move into adulthood.
Curtis Dick...
Young people who get too old for the island’s care system co...
Long before the tragic death of Kirsta Simons, The Royal Gazette has been snapping at the heels of the Department of Child and Family Services as a result of re...
Long before the tragic death of Kirsta Simons, The Royal Gaz...
There is nothing to stop Bermudians who were harmed at a harsh reform school in Pennsylvania from suing for damages, according to a personal injury lawyer in th...
There is nothing to stop Bermudians who were harmed at a har...
Police in the United States were unable to confirm how long a Bermudian teenager who took her own life was left alone by staff at a residential treatment instit...
Police in the United States were unable to confirm how long ...
A social worker asked the Government yesterday for proof that its use of overseas institutions for vulnerable Bermudian children was successful in the wake of t...
A social worker asked the Government yesterday for proof tha...
The Government has refused to disclose how many boys from Bermuda were sent to a controversial reform school in the United States over a period of more than 30 ...
The Government has refused to disclose how many boys from Be...
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 t...
A mother claimed yesterday that her teenage daughter’s refer...
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 s...
An Opposition MP called on the Government to act over “scand...
Lawyer Saul Dismont detailed in a British law magazine this year how the Government had failed children by not paying for them to have independent legal represe...
Lawyer Saul Dismont detailed in a British law magazine this ...
Campaigners called yesterday for Bermuda to come together for the sake of its children after stories about trauma suffered by minors in care services.
They insi...
Campaigners called yesterday for Bermuda to come together fo...
A child welfare campaigner has claimed that Bermuda might be “so far behind, that we’re ahead” in services for young people with problem behaviour.
Sheelagh Coo...
A child welfare campaigner has claimed that Bermuda might be...
The protection of children is expected to be discussed at the next meeting of Overseas Territories leaders, Government House revealed yesterday.
Government Hous...
The protection of children is expected to be discussed at th...
Two men who suffered abuse as teenagers at a grim reform school in the United States have urged Bermuda not to give up on its troubled young people and to care ...
Two men who suffered abuse as teenagers at a grim reform sch...
An at-risk teenager’s allegations that he suffered physical abuse at the hands of a male employee at a boys’ home were investigated only after his litigation gu...
An at-risk teenager’s allegations that he suffered physical ...
This statement was written by a teenager who was placed in the Brangman Home for girls in Smith’s by the Department of Child and Family Services. Her name, age ...
This statement was written by a teenager who was placed in t...
An overseas territory stopped sending children with behavioural issues to residential centres abroad more than a decade ago because young people struggled to re...
An overseas territory stopped sending children with behaviou...
A couple asked a court to consider whether they should be awarded compensation after their three-year-old son was unlawfully seized by police from their home on...
A couple asked a court to consider whether they should be aw...
What does every child who is brought into this world need and deserve?
Every child needs unconditional love and protection, provided by those who brought them i...
What does every child who is brought into this world need an...
Children’s groups hope the Government will provide more information about the newly established panel of litigation guardians.
They said yesterday that question...
Children’s groups hope the Government will provide more info...
A high proportion of children who enter institutionalised care, whether they stay in Bermuda or get sent abroad, end up in trouble as adults, it has been claime...
A high proportion of children who enter institutionalised ca...
Philadelphia set up a task force to investigate youth residential care after 17-year-old David Hess died at the hands of staff at a centre for troubled teens an...
Philadelphia set up a task force to investigate youth reside...
Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and both need a string of improvements, people with inside knowledge have said.
The sources said the buil...
Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and b...
A teenage boy sent to two overseas schools by the Department of Child and Family Services came back with no educational qualifications and ill-equipped for adul...
A teenage boy sent to two overseas schools by the Department...
Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years.
As far back as at ...
Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment cent...
