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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Our latest press release - the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend children’s nursing and mental health nursing programmes:

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Our November newsletter is out now! Read it here on our website: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/WZYU...

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ABPN Newsletter November 2025

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Please join us in a warm welcome to our new Chair Jean Davis! Jean has been working as Deputy Chair since October 2024 and we are delighted to have her on board as our new Chair

We are delighted to announce our new
Chair of the ABPN -
Jean Davis!
Jean has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and leadership roles across Wales and Scotland, as well as engagement with professional nursing and medical organisations at national, UK and international level.

Press release - New Chair appointed to lead the Association of British Paediatric
Nurses
24th October 2025
The Association of British Paediatric Nurses (ABPN) is delighted to announce the appointment of Jean Davies as the new Chair to lead the Association and ensure high standards of governance in line with charity commission requirements.
Jean has extensive experience in clinical practice, education and leadership roles across Wales and Scotland, as well as engagement with professional nursing and medical organisations at national, UK and international level. Jean had joined the Association leadership team in October 2024 as Deputy chair.
"It is an honour and privilege to have been appointed to the position of ABPN Chair.
My responsibilities to the ABPN, its President, officers and members will be carried out with great care and dedication. My aim is to work closely with all those who impact on the lives of babies, children, young people and their families. In my role as ABPN Chair I will provide effective leadership and will work tirelessly with colleagues to highlight how care and service improvements are achievable through effective and active listening to ABPN members and the children, young people and families we care for"
Dr Jean A. Davies, Chair
Notes for editors
Dr Jean A Davies - Fellow Advance HE, Programme Lead Child Field, Nursing Lecturer in Health Sciences- Nursing Children and Young People., School of Health Sciences, Bangor University
The term child refers to infants, children, young people and young adults up to 25 years of age The ABPN recognises that primary and community services, as well as child public health and mental health services, including school nurses and health visitors also have a key role in supporting children, young people and families.
The ABPN is the oldest children's nursing association in the world, established in 1938. Our vide membership includes experts in clinical practice, education, leadership and research

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Our FREE webinar on “Pain in Young People: A New Treatment Model” is out now on our YouTube channel! Join us with Mayara Silveira Bianchim as she talks about pain in young people, a new model of treatment and how to involve young people in research! youtu.be/8q7520AOKI4?... #nurse #nursing

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Pain in Young People: A New Treatment Model (ABPN Webinar)

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Its #WorldMentalHealthDay and we’re sharing some NHS findings on the prevalence children and young people’s mental health #MentalHealth

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It’s #WorldHeartDay! And we’re celebrating Cardiovascular Nurses - what is one thing you’d like to tell people about your job? @jcardfail.bsky.social

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) day fell on the 9th of September to raise awareness of the disorder and to show the importance of remaining alcohol free for the entire pregnancy, here’s what we had to say: #fasdawareness #nursing #FASD @fasdunited.bsky.social

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

There is the very exciting opportunity to get involved with our Journal of Child Health Care as an Associate Editor! If you’re interested click the link below to get more details 😊

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

School immunisation teams in some areas will offer flu vaccines for 2-3 year olds in some nurseries for the first time as part of the national drive to protect more children… #nursing #ChildNurse www.england.nhs.uk/2025/09/nhs-...

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NHS England » NHS kicks off winter vaccine roll out with flu jabs for children and pregnant women

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Happy Paediatrics Haematology and Oncology Nurses Day! Thank you for everything you do! 🩵 #nursing

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Children’s epilepsy nurses at Hull Royal Infirmary have created some wonderful leaflets which are being used by Young Epilepsy aimed at supporting young people in the transition from paediatric care to adult epilepsy services! Read their incredible work here - www.epilepsy.org.uk/app/uploads/... 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

We have published a Blueprint for Community Children’s Nursing and the Report from our World Café event in March: Developing a Rights Based Approach to the Provision of Comprehensive Integrated Community Childrens’ Nursing Services Find them both on our website: www.abpn-uk.com

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

We’ve created an infographic aimed at parents for keeping children safe in the heat, please feel free to share it with any parents or anywhere it could be helpful 😊🩵 #nurse #nursing

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Our latest newsletter is out now!! Find out what’s been happening with the ABPN here: new.express.adobe.com/webpage/vBRp...

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ABPN Newsletter August 2025

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Are you a professional working with looked after children? I'm Ali Whitehouse, Lecturer in CYP Nursing, researching motor development in looked after children. I'm looking for health, education, and social care professionals to share their views via a short survey forms.cloud.microsoft/e/tC4VGwHUzg

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

All of our webinar recordings are out now on our YouTube channel! Go to - youtube.com/@abpn_childn... to see our full back dated catalogue now! And sign up for our upcoming webinars at www.abpn-uk.com/webinars

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Keep your eyes peeled next weekend for our webinar series recordings launch! We’ve got 14 of our recordings ready to share! 🥳

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Cavell is the charity supporting nurses, midwives and nursing associates going through tough times. They are inviting our nursing and midwifery staff to complete a short anonymous survey about mental health, wellbeing and money worries. Start the survey here www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/Cavell2025/

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2025 Cavell Survey

Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

It’s #PrideMonth and we’re celebrating with an infographic on some of the ways you can support your LGBT+ child! Thanks to @stonewalluk.bsky.social for their incredible resources on this 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

For the final day of #DiabetesAwareness Week we’re sharing another way that Type 1 diabetes in children can be managed - insulin pumps

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

For day six of #diabetesawareness Week we’re sharing one of the most common methods used to help control Type 1 diabetes - insulin pens:

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A huge thank you today on #WorldBloodDonorDay to those who donate blood - each time you donate you’re saving or improving the lives of 3 adults or six children!

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It’s day 5 of #diabetesawareness Week and today’s infographic is a reminder that if your child shows the symptoms our other infographics talked about please see a doctor straight away 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

It’s day 4 of #diabetesawareness week and today’s infographic is on some of the different types of diabetes children can have outside of Type 1 and Type 2

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

It’s day 3 of diabetes awareness week and today we’re sharing some of the most common Type 2 symptoms: #diabetesawareness

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It’s day 2 of #diabetesawareness week! We’re sharing a new infographic every day to help raise awareness of diabetes in children! Today’s infographic is all about the most common symptoms in Type 1 diabetes in children:

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It’s #diabetesawareness week and we’re sharing an infographic each day on diabetes in children to raise awareness!

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

FREE membership for Children’s Nurses doing their undergraduate programme! The Association of British Paediatric Nurses is offering FREE membership for the duration of your undergraduate programme if you are studying as a pre-registration student to be a RN child! www.abpn-uk.com/membership-a...

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Don’t forget to register for our latest FREE webinar “After death - care of child and family” June 5th 4-5pm GMT By Rachel Cooke - RSCN & bereavement service manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Charity Register now - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-deat... @greatormondst.bsky.social

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After death- care of child and family

• care after deatrh, bereavement key worker role and self care

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

It’s stroke awareness month and we’re sharing an infographic on childhood strokes, which around 400 children in the UK experience each year #nursing #nurse #strokeawarenessmonth

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Our latest webinar recording is out now! Claus Sixtus, Associate Professor in Children's Nursing & Clinical Nurse Specialist, talks to us on recognising signs and symptoms of clinical deterioration in paediatric patients. youtu.be/CLgRpeD0SN4?...

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Enhancing Paediatric Nursing - A webinar focusing on critical signs

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Do we really need community children’s nurses? Mark Whiting talks about the history of community children’s nursing and if we need them in today’s world… Our first webinar recording is up now on our YouTube channel! #nursing #nurse m.youtube.com/watch?v=zla_...

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Do We Really Need Community Children’s Nurses?

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Happy Nurses Day! We want to say a huge thank you to all nurses for everything they do from all of us at the ABPN! 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Today is the last day of #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek and we’d like to share our FREE upcoming webinar “After death - care of child and family” June 5th 4-5pm GMT Hosted by Rachel Cooke - child nurse and bereavement service manager at @greatormondst.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/after-deat...

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After death- care of child and family

• care after deatrh, bereavement key worker role and self care

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We’re thrilled to share our final podcast for #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek where we speak to Ravi Nathwani, the vice chair and Hindu trustee of the Devon faith and belief forum, about the culture of dying matters and what that means to him open.spotify.com/episode/2RZJ...

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

This week is #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek and @hospiceuk.bsky.social have incredible resources on how to help break the taboo and get talking about death and dying www.hospiceuk.org/our-campaign...

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

We talked to Rachel Cooke, the Registered Children’s Nurse and Bereavement Service Manager at @greatormondst.bsky.social in our newest podcast for #DyingMattersAwarenessWeek Listen to it now on Spotify! open.spotify.com/episode/4ZGm...

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Dying Matters Awareness Week - Rachel Cooke

Dying Matters Week 2025 · Episode

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Our first podcast is out! Join us for dying matters awareness week where we’re diving into this year’s theme “the culture of dying matters”! We hope you enjoy it! 🩵 open.spotify.com/episode/0ysd...

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

This week is Dying Matters Week and the theme this year is The Culture of Dying Matters. This week we’ve created three podcasts and we’ll be sharing them alongside resources on how and why to talk about dying 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Such an important read for all parents and caregivers: Pouches may be a quick solution to getting little ones to eat on the go but they may not be getting the nutrients they need and they may also contain far more sugar than the recommended daily amount! #nurse #health www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Baby food pouches low in key nutrients, lab testing finds

Parents are being

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Does your child/children you support struggle with poor posture, discomfort, or difficulty maintaining healthy positioning? Are you a parent, caregiver or professional working with disabilities? Join us for our FREE webinar on 24-hour postural care May 7th 4-5pm! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/supporting...

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Today is world Tuberculosis Day so we’re sharing @who.int’s infographic to help spread awareness #worldTBday

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s the final day of #Neurodiversity Week! Here’s our last infographic for this week, it’s all about neurodiversity as a whole! If you’d like to help spread awareness please feel free to share it 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek! We’ve been sharing information all week on neurodiversity and today we’re sharing about sensory boxes and ideas on things you could include 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek! All week we’ve been sharing information on neurodivergence and today we’re talking about Tourette’s Syndrome! We hope that it’s useful, please feel free to share it to help raise awareness 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek! Today we’re sharing information all about stimming - a common activity that many neurodivergent people do! If you’d like to help spread awareness please feel free to share this with others 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek! All week we’re sharing information on neurodivergence and today we’re talking about ADHD! If you’d like to help raise awareness please feel free to share the infographic 🩵

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Association of British Paediatric Nurses @abpn-childnurse.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It’s #NeurodiversityWeek! So today we’re sharing a fact sheet all about autism! If you’d like to help celebrate feel free to share this post and infographic to help spread awareness 🩵

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