Youth, Families and Sports Minister Glenn Blakeney has accused The Royal Gazette of "misinformation and inexcusable, irresponsible reporting", for an article on the Government overseas psychoeducational programme.Mr Blakeney was responding to an article that said about 30 of 53 young people undergoing psychological treatment abroad would be returned to the Island later this month.The Minister called both figures "totally wrong".Mr Blakeney also vowed to launch a formal complaint about the story, adding: "Now I'm going to see what kind of teeth the Media Council really has."He said that Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute chief of psychiatry Michael Radford, quoted in the article, had been "unfairly ambushed and given information that was incorrect".The Minister continued: "There was no excuse, in my humble opinion, for facts to be skewed, deliberately I think."In the article, Dr Radford called the return of the programme's candidates "a disaster" and said: "There's going to be pressure on the Island's services when these children come back."The article also quoted schoolteachers and campaigners expressing their concerns that the Island lacked the resources to deal adequately with their return.It further quoted Mr Blakeney acknowledging that Budget cuts had made the psychoeducational programme "more challenging".However, the Minister responded: "First and foremost, it should be made clear that the psychiatrist quoted in the article, Dr Michael Radford, who is currently chief of psychiatry at the Mid-Atlantic Wellness Institute, does not have direct knowledge or oversight of the treatment status of the children in the psychoeducational programme and has no authority to speak on behalf of the programme."He said Dr Radford's comments to the newspaper had been based on data that Dr Radford believed to be correct."It would probably be a warranted concern if the numbers and aspersions were true," Mr Blakeney said. "They were completely inaccurate. It appears to be deliberate, because the correct information was given in two different statements."Mr Blakeney was referring to a statement given in June, in which he contradicted a television news report that he said suggested the Department of Child and Family Services was putting the community at risk by bringing the children back to Bermuda before the completion of their therapy.He insisted that "there will not be 30 young people returning home this month from overseas treatment, and there will not be 30 children needing specialist attention entering the public school system in September 2011".The Minister said that just four out of 20 children who will have returned home by the end of July will require placement in the public educational system this September.He accused The Royal Gazette of "many incorrect and misleading statements" in the article and suggested there had been "an ulterior motive".Mr Blakeney added: "I would hope that the editor of The Royal Gazette will admit the error and publicly apologise."The article in Wednesday's newspaper also mentioned that Mr Blakeney did not give comment when sent a series of questions regarding the programme, but had sent a copy of last month's statement instead.Asked why he had not answered, Mr Blakeney replied: "In my opinion, the questions that came to me were questions that were already answered."Last night, a Bermuda Hospitals Board spokesman issued this response."Dr Radford provided a lengthy interview to a Royal Gazette reporter on the subject of the mental health plan, during which there was a brief exchange about children who were returning to Bermuda after being treated abroad."Comments made by Dr Radford about this issue were his personal and private opinions, and do not reflect the views or position of Bermuda Hospitals Board."