Dental Health: Children
(asked on 20th July 2020) - 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 effect of school closures as a result of the covid-19 outbreak on levels of dental decay among children.
This question was answered on 1st September 2020
No assessment has been made of the effect of school closures as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak on levels of dental decay among children. School and nursery based oral health improvement programmes stopped with school closures. Public Health England is working with the Department for Education and partners, on restarting these programmes safely in the autumn term.