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National Adoption Week 2025

National Adoption Week has taken place in the UK since 1997 and this year it runs from 20 - 26 October 2025. Its purpose is to promote and raise awareness about different pathways to parenthood through adoption. It also seeks to highlight the positive benefits of adoption for children, families and society and show how adoption can improve the lives of children and those who adopt them. Adoption is used in a variety of situations, from an individual or couple choosing to adopt through an agency to a step-parent adopting their partner’s child, to a non-birth parent obtaining parental status and rights after a child’s birth via assisted conception.
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Baby Loss Awareness Week 2025

Every year, all across the UK, thousands of families come together on 15 October, the final day of Baby Loss Awareness Week to light a candle for the ‘Wave of Light’. This event is organised by the Baby Loss Charity Sands (Still and Neonatal Death), to honour and pay respects to all babies who died too soon. The ‘Wave of Light’ is a beautiful commemoration of every family’s story of experiencing baby loss, of every broken heart and every lost son, daughter, brother and sister.  The chance to come together provides an opportunity to foster a sense of closeness and intimacy, and to combat the isolation that so often accompanies such a traumatic loss. In this way, those grieving the loss of their baby know that they are not alone, that they have each other- that there is a sense of camaraderie and solidarity.   
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Breast Cancer and BRCA Genes: The Impact on Fertility

October is breast cancer awareness month, designed to promote widespread education about one of the most common cancer diagnoses. In fact, it is the most common cancer in women, or people assigned female at birth, with around 56,000 cases diagnosed annually in the UK. Therefore, each year during October fundraising projects take place such as the ‘wear it pink’ campaign where people don pink clothing or a pink ribbon to symbolise solidarity with breast cancer patients and to raise money for cancer research.
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British Fertility Society’s Creating Modern Families Day 2025

The British Fertility Society Creating Modern Families Day took place on 23 September 2025 in London as part of BFS Study Week. It delivered an excellent multi-disciplinary training programme that was well attended by fertility clinicians, embryologists, nurses, counsellors and other fertility professionals. Louisa Ghevaert was delighted to be invited back as a speaker to give a surrogacy law update and take part in a lively question and answer panel addressing complex fertility and family law issues in practice.
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