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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...

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 the young girl died at the overseas facility. She wanted to know what steps were taken befo...

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 shadow legal affairs minister, applauded The Royal Gazette’s Who Cares? series about how th...

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 representation. Mr Dismont submitted an article to Family Affairs, the newsletter of the Family L...

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 insisted there must be greater consideration given to alternative options that would limit the...

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 Cooper, the founder and former executive director of the Coalition for the Protection of Chil...

The protection of children is expected to be discussed at the next meeting of Overseas Territories leaders, Government House revealed yesterday. Government House said that child safeguarding was a high priority and one that had been “consistent” amon...

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 for at-risk children closer to home. Alvone Maybury, 33, and Ezra Ararat, 34, told their s...

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 guardian read his file. An inquiry into the abuse claims at the Devonshire home was launched...

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 and the dates when she lived there have been left out to protect her identity. I was put ...

An overseas territory stopped sending children with behavioural issues to residential centres abroad more than a decade ago because young people struggled to return to the communities they left behind. Laurel Freeman, a social worker in the British V...