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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...

Boys from Bermuda were shipped off to a harsh reform school for more than 35 years until 2017. But the name of Glen Mills Schools, the oldest institution of its type in America, would have meant nothing to most Bermudians until April last year. It wa...

Children as young as 9 have been sent to a psychiatric hospital some 2,500 miles away for clinical assessments. A spokeswoman for the University of Utah’s Neuropsychiatric Institute confirmed the hospital had examined 29 of the island’s minors in the...

The Ministry of Legal Affairs wishes to provide the community with accurate information regarding the Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS). The stories published in The Royal Gazette as it relates to old Psycho-Ed and Residential Treatment...

A Bermudian girl sent to a residential institution in Connecticut was one of the school’s “success stories”, its president has claimed. Richard Chorney, the chief executive of Grove School, Madison, said he remembered one child from the island. He ad...

A top child protection agency in the United States said that Bermuda faced an “additional burden” in the monitoring of overseas residential programmes used for the island’s young people because of its distance from the institutions. Christine James-B...

Bermudian children are being sent to schools in the United States where staff have been accused of serious misconduct, including an institution that sacked an employee two weeks ago after it was alleged he allowed teenage boys to choke one another un...

Schoolboys aged just 14 and 15 were locked up at the Co-Ed Facility as recently as this year despite laws designed to prevent the detention of children unless in exceptional circumstances. Ian Kawaley, a former Chief Justice, ruled in 2012 that a sen...

A mother of three feared for her 17-year-old son when she learnt that a Bermudian had died at a treatment institution in the US. The woman said she was “horrified” to read about a teenager who died at a residential facility in Utah last month — the s...

Lawyers have been given permission to proceed with a court case launched on behalf of a five-year-old boy who it was claimed had been denied legal protection through a failure to fund independent court representation for him. Martha Dismont, for the ...

At 13, he thought he was going to Disney World — but instead was flown overseas for a year in therapy. At 15, he should have been in a children’s home — but was “jailed” for months at the Co-Ed in St George’s despite never being convicted of a crime....