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PARENTS have resorted to recording meetings with Children’s Services because of unreliable record-keeping, a long-serving politician has claimed.

THE new Children’s Minister may have jumped the gun in vowing to drop plans for a memorial to child abuse victims and ‘needs to find out what’s going on behind the scenes’, a campaigner has said.

A CONVERSATION encompassing the views of those who experienced abuse while in Jersey’s care system needs to be had, the Children’s Minister has said after dozens attended
a protest opposing a planned memorial.

SENIOR civil servants are gaining too much power – and are trying to override ministerial policies – partly because of a lack of political leadership at the heart of government, a former minister has said.

THE Jersey Tenants Forum has reacted with fury to the ‘disgraceful situation’ which saw States Members with declared financial interests in property able to vote down proposals to regulate the Island’s rental sector.

A ‘VICIOUS’ social-media backlash to a proposed memorial acknowledging abuse carried out in Jersey’s care system could silence the voices that need to be heard most, a campaigner has warned.

A PROPOSAL to change the name of Trenton Square because of its reference to a slave trader were defeated in the States yesterday.

FOREIGN investors should be banned from purchasing buy-to-let homes within the proposed new Waterfront development and adequate social housing should be included in any future plans, the former Housing Minister has said.

MINISTERS faced a barrage of questions in the States yesterday over Jersey’s escalating Covid cases and the controversial decision to ban partners at antenatal scans.