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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...

The following is a first-person account from a young man who tells how he was let down by the Department of Child and Family Services and a foster care system that left him to fend for himself. Given the troubling nature of these revelations, the man...

A vulnerable teenager “dumped” overseas by the island’s child protection agency claimed yesterday that social workers tricked him into going and then “abandoned” him for years. The youth, whose mother died when he was a child, said in an account to T...

An attempt by Attorney-General Kathy Lynn Simmons to shut down questions about vulnerable children sent abroad without legal representation was criticised yesterday, including by a teenager who claimed he was made to go overseas under false pretences...

An American reform school where boys from Bermuda were sent for more than 35 years has been shut down for mistreatment and abuse of children. Glen Mills Schools in Pennsylvania was told by state authorities there had been a string of violations of re...

A woman sent overseas for residential care when she was aged just 12 said the move felt like a punishment and left her unprepared for adult life back home. She explained that her only childhood problems were emotional and that she was “tricked” on to...

Dear Sir, In all of the articles about at-risk children, in all of the quotations from people over the past year, I don’t ever remember seeing the word “parents”. Why did the parents not take the primary position regarding their children? Where were ...

Vulnerable children involved in court proceedings will have no legal representation because of the Government’s refusal to pay for the services, it was alleged yesterday. Tiffanne Thomas, a freelance social worker, said she was withdrawing as a litig...

Bermudian gangs are posting hip-hop ‘diss’ tracks online to taunt and intimidate one another, the Bermuda Police Service has confirmed. Assistant Commissioner Martin Weekes revealed that officers were assessing any potential connection between the Yo...

An increasing number of young offenders are being put through community programmes to help their rehabilitation. In the past three months the community service programme has seen a rise in teenage participants as magistrates look to impose more unpa...