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Information Commissioner orders disclosure of certain records about Alfred Maybury’s 2018 suspension

Total in 2023 is more than a 200 per cent increase from funding in 2021 for the same purpose

Most transported abroad for programmes do not have a litigation guardian or a lawyer

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 Jackson welcomed the Government’s plan to launch an independent transitional living programm...

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 after she died. Johnita Simons explained that she contacted agencies in Bermuda as well as ...

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 online campaign as part of her daughter Kirsta’s “legacy”. She wrote: “As a mother of a c...

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 Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, told MPs: “In the 2020-21 year, a transitional living regi...

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 reports getting back to us that young people in government care were not getting the best ou...

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 the United States. Stewart Eisenberg, of Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck la...

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 institution because security cameras were switched off. Kirsta Simons died at West Ridge Academy...

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 the death of a Bermudian teenager in the United States. Tiffanne Thomas, who has acted as a...

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 years or whether any complained of mistreatment. But it has revealed that disgraced Glen M...