Dental Services: Schools
(asked on 21st February 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of providing free dental check-ups in schools.
This question was answered on 27th February 2023
In England there is no national programme of routine dental checks in schools. This is because the UK National Screening Committee advised in 2006 that population screening for dental disease in children aged six to nine years old should be discontinued as it was ineffective. A review in 2013 upheld this recommendation which is available at the following link: