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2026 Press Releases

January

1st January 2026 Cervical Cancer awareness month

27th January 2026 Holocaust Memorial Day - Bridging Generations

February

9th February 2026 Children's Mental Health Week

23rd February Eating Disorders Awareness Week – The Power of community

March

4th March World Obesity Day – ‘8 Billion Reasons to act on Obesity’

2025 Press Releases

January

24th January 2025: International Day of Education

February

14th February 2025: International Childhood Cancer Day

28th February 2025: International Rare Diseases Day

March

1st March 2025: International Women's History Month

21st March 2025: World Down Syndrome Day

April

2nd April 2025 World Autism Acceptance Day - Colour 'Light it up blue'

17th April 2025 World Haemophilia Day 'Access for all: Women and Girls Bleed Too'

24th April 2025 World Immunisations Week - 'Uniting for Universal Vaccine Coverage'

May

5-9th May 2025 Dying Matters Awareness Week - 'The Culture of Dying Matters: ABPN Podcasts announcement

Link to podcast

12th May 2025 International Nurses Day- Our Nurses. Our Future. Caring for Nurses strengthens economies

15th May 2025 International Day of Families

25th May 2025 International Missing Children Day - Raising awareness, preventing abduction, and bringing missing children home

June

1st June 2025 International Cancer Survivors Day

2nd June 2025 National Volunteers Week 2-8th June: Thank You from the Association of British Paediatric Nurses

14th June 2025 World Blood Donor Day

July

27th July 2025 National Parents Day

30th July 2025 World Day Against Trafficking in Persons - 'Human trafficking is organised crime - end the exploitation'

30th July 2025 Community Pharmacy Delivery of Childhood Flu Vaccinations

August

6th August 2025 Celebrating Play Day - "Playing on a Shoestring - Making Every Day an Adventure"

19th August 2025 World Humanitarian Day - Strengthening Global Solidarity and Empowering Local Communities #ActFor Humanity

21st August 2025 The Association of British Paediatric Nurses launches new publications to strengthen community children's nursing

September

9th September 2025 International Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Awareness Day

17th September 2025 World Patient Safety Day - 'Safe care for every newborn and every child - Patient safety from the start

October

6th October 2025 World Cerebral Palsy Day #UniquelyCP

9th October 2025 World Adoption Day

20th October 2025 Universal Children's Day

27th October 2025 National Mentoring Day

November

10th November 2025 Short term decisions - Long term impact on children and young people

20th November 2025 Universal Children's Day

December

3rd December 2025 International Day of Persons with Disabilities

11th December 2025 UNICEF's Birthday

2024 Press Releases

July

​9th July 2024: Nursing & Midwifery Council: Independent Culture Review

18th July 2024: Child Poverty Taskforce

26th July 2024: Lord Falconer's Assisted Dying Bill

27th July 2024: Sophie's Legacy

28th July 2024: Parents Day

30th July 2024: World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

August

7th August 2024: National Day for Play

19th August 2024: World Humanitarian Day

September

10th September 2024: World Suicide Prevention Day

12th September 2024: Lord Darzi's report

18th September 2024: Honouring our Past, Oral History Project

23rd September 2024: Turn the skies pink for Organ Donation Week

October

10th October 2024: World Mental Health Day

​12th October 2024: World Hospice and Palliative Care Day

November

14th November 2024: World Diabetes Day – Diabetes and Wellbeing

20th November 2024: Universal Children’s Day

December

​1st December 2024: World AIDS Day - Remember and commit

11th December 2024: UNICEF's Birthday

2023 Press Releases

24th March 2023: Defending the value of field-specific pre-registration training for children’s nurses

2022 Press Releases

1st March 2022: Ukraine