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Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez has upheld a decision by the Department of Internal Audit to withhold the findings of an inquiry into the head of the island’s child protection agency. However, Ms Gutierrez told The Royal Gazette that alt...

Last week, the Government rushed legislation titled the Child Safeguarding Bill 2019 through the Senate, despite Opposition protests as to the unnecessary disregarding of due process. Only senators were invited to a briefing session less than 48 hou...

Better communication among government departments, police and other agencies could help to prevent vulnerable children from “falling through the cracks”, a child protection group said yesterday. The Coalition for the Protection of Children added that...

A longtime child welfare campaigner welcomed a proposed law to improve protection for youngsters yesterday, but said it lacked a guarantee of funding for independent legal representation for vulnerable children in court. Sheelagh Cooper said: “I am v...

A Government farm programme designed to deter young people from a life of crime has welcomed its first participants. Eight “at-risk” young men were introduced to Redemption Farm this week. The programme was funded by the Government with public and p...

Two teenage graduates of an alternative education programme yesterday told how the institution had transformed their lives. Scott Bean and Kenyade McQueen have completed their general equivalency diploma at Success Academy and are looking forward to ...

Community homes for mental health treatment in Bermuda are to be funded by the Government, the Premier pledged. David Burt said that funding for the homes would come in the “very near future”. The statement drew applause from the audience at the se...

Two young men sent from Bermuda to an American reform school have told how they were beaten and humiliated by teachers, with one alleging he would lie in bed at night hearing students raping other children. Both were sent to Glen Mills Schools in Pen...

Traumatic events in childhood have become a “public health emergency” that policymakers must tackle from the top, an expert warned yesterday. Mark Cloutier said legislators need to understand how the wider community is affected not only socially but ...

Youth activist and soon-to-be law graduate Eron Hill was sent abroad as part of a controversial government programme for vulnerable children — and credits it with turning his life around. Mr Hill told The Royal Gazette he was compelled to share his s...

Findings from an investigation into Bermuda’s child protection agency are prevented by law from being released, senators heard yesterday. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, said legislation meant the report of an ...

Information Commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez will decide whether the Department of Internal Audit was right to keep secret the findings of its inquiry into the head of the island’s child protection agency. Alfred Maybury, director of the Department o...