2018 news

Following a rigorous selection and training process, fourteen Authorised Civil Celebrants will be sworn in at the Royal Court tomorrow, giving them authority to conduct wedding ceremonies at any non-religious licensed venue in Jersey.

Vegetables and herbs grown at La Moye are being used to supply a charity café as part of a number of prison initiatives that are benefitting the community

La Moye prison has been offering one-to-one sessions to help inmates quit smoking as the prison prepares to be smoke free in January

Combined Control Room is the latest step towards ‘One Gov’

La Moye is the only place in the Channel Islands that grows the houseplant, which is delivered each November to Co-op stores across the island.

Victims of sexual offences will have greater protection and a clearer pathway to justice when a new law comes into force on Friday 23 November

A 12-week consultation, which seeks islanders’ views on divorce reform, the future of civil partnerships and the age of marriage, has been launched

Two consultation papers have been published proposing to regulate consumer lending and pensions business

Pet owners planning on travelling to the EU after Brexit are advised to prepare as soon as possible.

Volunteers are being urged to contact HM Prison La Moye to support a variety of duties

The Minister for Home Affairs has approved a change in policy that will make 130 seasonal work permits available for the agriculture industry to employ workers from outside the European Economic Area

Jersey Library has completed a four-year project to index Evening Post newspapers covering the period of the Great War.

Proposed changes to the Jersey Immigration Rules will allow EU citizens to remain living in Jersey after Brexit.

Plans for redevelopment at the prison have been signed off by the Home Affairs Minister

A new law to protect private land owners against abandoned vehicles parked without owners permission.

Apply to become an independent civil celebrant, closing date 3 October 2018

Customs and Immigration refuse entry to a man deported from the UK for serious drugs offences

Amended care regulations published for comment

Home Affairs Minister, Connétable Len Norman, pays tribute to States of Jersey Police Chief Officer, Rob Bastable

Jersey’s first same-sex marriage has taken place at The Office of the Superintendent Registrar today at 12 noon

My role is to promote and protect children’s rights in Jersey and hold government to account on its commitment to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).

The consultation, launched by the States of Jersey, is asking anyone with an interest in care home fees and regulation to comment on the proposed fee structure.

A review of Jersey’s Safeguarding Partnership Boards has been conducted for the Community and Constitutional Affairs Department, following the Board’s first five years in operation.

​Jersey’s Customs and Immigration Officers working at the harbour had a busy weekend as a result of a commercial drugs seizure and an immigration refusal.

Nick Cameron has been announced as the next Head of Jersey Prison Service and Prison Governor of La Moye, taking up his post on 13 August 2018.

The daily rate of an army reservist starts from £37.47 rising to £46.42

Groups are gathering this week for a high profile conference on domestic abuse.

Almost 20 schools in Jersey are now registered as ‘Sun Safe’ Primary schools.

Same-sex marriage could be legal in Jersey from July this year

Around fifty organisations are due to attend the event

A team of seven new female prison officers have been recruited to work at La Moye Prison

The process was launched in response to the Independent Jersey Care Inquiry’s recommendation that the site should be demolished.

The memorial is intended to serve as a public acknowledgement to the many hundreds of children and young people who were ill-served by the child care system over many decades.

The review highlighted the difficulty of respecting an individual’s right to a private life at the same time as trying to keep them safe from harm, in this case self-neglect.

Jersey Safeguarding Partnership Board and its partners across the States of Jersey are working together with the NSPCC on a joint local PANTS campaign and new Helpline.

The campaign will be run by the Jersey Safeguarding Partnership Board in partnership with the NSPCC and partners throughout the States of Jersey.

More than 750 people have taken part in the Island-wide consultation so far

Three young people from Jersey with experience of the care system in the Island joined the delegation and afterwards spoke about what they had learnt.

Professionals from a number of agencies have been nominated for the awards which are being given in recognition of an outstanding contribution towards Safeguarding in Jersey.

The Home Affairs Minister, Deputy Kristina Moore, welcomes the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on police governance

Deputy Sam Mézec, the chairman of the Care of Children in Jersey Review Panel, will also attend the visit.

The inmates’ work will showcase their artwork and crafts and will be exhibited from this Thursday at The Harbour Gallery, St Aubin, until 8 April.

One of the key recommendations was to publish the “Severe Weather and Grands Vaux Flood Plans”

Under the proposals there are plans to include rape trials by jurat, which the Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel have recommended.

The Law will repeal and replace legislation dating from the 1830s to the 1940s, to build on the strengths of justice and fairness in our system.

The Minister for Home Affairs has announced the news today following the release of a new consensus statement for Jersey in which top health professionals have signed up to about the use of e-cigarettes.

The Jersey consensus statement explains that based on the latest limited research evidence there is sufficient confidence to say that e-cigarettes are less harmful to smokers’ health than if they continue to smoke conventional cigarettes.

As part of this year’s National Awareness Day on Sunday 18 March a range of organisations and senior leaders in Jersey are joining forces to raise awareness of child sexual exploitation this week.

Details of the work involved in developing a Children’s Plan for Jersey will be made public for the first time at the ‘Engagement Day’ on 14 March, at Hotel de France, an event which is open to everyone.

Jersey’s Superintendent Registrar has released the Annual Life Event statement for 2017, which also shows that the number of births were at their lowest since 2002 and deaths at the highest since 2002.

​The event is taking place on Saturday, 10 March, from 12pm to 3pm, at The Link, Eagle House, La Colomberie. As this is a drop-in event, no booking is required and children and young people can just turn up on the day.

The Access to Justice Advisory Panel, Chaired by Senator Paul Routier MBE, held a number of public hearings during 2016 and 2017 to take evidence on how the legal aid scheme could be improved

The HMCI report concluded that it was a "good report on a good prison" and described La Moye as a 'safe prison with low levels of violence' with professional officers who were respected by prisoners

Online surveys have been developed available for children aged from three to eighteen years old.

The Chief Minister announced that the government would be leading the way as a good employer by adopting the Caritas Living Wage.

An Islandwide consultation, which will run from 8 February to 22 April 2018, invites Islanders to have their say about the future of the former children's home

Jersey’s Superintendent Registrar, Claire Follain, said that her Office has received a number of calls since the new law was debated in the States last week.

Deputy Moore said: “It is of great concern, and #itsnotok, that 186 sexual offences were reported in Jersey last year and that the States of Jersey police are certain that this type of crime is still under-reported."

The Children’s Commissioner has met with a range of children and young people and visited six schools

An update on the Government's response to the IJCI's recommendations

The new sexual offences law sets out to provide protection to individuals of all genders, and, most particularly, aims to protect children and vulnerable adults in Jersey from abuse and exploitation and ensures that abusers can be appropriately punished.

It follows a case in the Royal Court which found that a person had died intestate or without a will after he was unable to sign his will as a result of paralysis of the hands.

The Charity Commissioner, John Mills CBE, said, “"I welcome this final step towards bringing the Charities Law into force.

This weekend, a live chat was launched on Facebook, through the Apptivism.je app, and in the first ten hours over 450 Facebook users responded.

He described giving evidence as ‘horrendous”, as he had to face cross-examination by his abuser, who chose to represent himself in court.

​“I will listen to children and young people to find out what is important to them. I will speak up for children and young people to ensure their voice is heard.”