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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...

A couple asked a court to consider whether they should be awarded compensation after their three-year-old son was unlawfully seized by police from their home on the instructions of the island’s child protection agency. The American pair sought unspec...

What does every child who is brought into this world need and deserve? Every child needs unconditional love and protection, provided by those who brought them into this world. Parenting can be one of the most difficult but most rewarding responsibil...

Children’s groups hope the Government will provide more information about the newly established panel of litigation guardians. They said yesterday that questions about funding and the selection process remained unanswered. Scott Pearman, the shadow l...

A high proportion of children who enter institutionalised care, whether they stay in Bermuda or get sent abroad, end up in trouble as adults, it has been claimed. But the Department of Child and Family Services does not appear to collect statistics o...

Philadelphia set up a task force to investigate youth residential care after 17-year-old David Hess died at the hands of staff at a centre for troubled teens and youth campaigners spoke out about mistreatment. The result was a report released on Nove...

Bermuda has two residential homes for children in care and both need a string of improvements, people with inside knowledge have said. The sources said the buildings, the staff and the care provided all needed to be upgraded. The Royal Gazette spoke ...

A teenage boy sent to two overseas schools by the Department of Child and Family Services came back with no educational qualifications and ill-equipped for adult life, a good Samaritan who looked after his welfare said. The woman added she had known ...

Bermudian children have been sent to overseas treatment centres for decades — but it has only come to wider public attention in recent years. As far back as at least 1984 — and until 2017 — boys from Bermuda were sent to the embattled Glen Mills Scho...

Governments on both sides of the political divide have spent more than $33 million over the past ten years to send Bermudian children to overseas institutions, The Royal Gazette can reveal. Most of the cash was paid to schools and “treatment centres”...

A Utah institution where a Bermudian teenager died last month said it had “evolved” its practices over the past decade for dealing with the children in its care after a string of abuse allegations. West Ridge Academy, a non-profit agency in West Jord...