Dental Health

(asked on 22nd June 2022) - 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 effectiveness of tooth brushing programmes in schools.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 28th June 2022

Local authorities are responsible for funding and commissioning oral health interventions for the local population, including tooth brushing campaigns in schools. Public health services commissioned by local authorities in England are funded through the ring-fenced Public Health Grant. In 2022/23, the Public Health Grant to local authorities is £3.417 billion.

No recent national evaluation of the effectiveness of existing local authority-led tooth brushing programmes has been made. The Office of Health Improvement and Disparities regularly reviews the available evidence on the effectiveness of measures to promote oral health, including supervised tooth brushing. This includes evidence from schemes in England and in other parts of the United Kingdom.

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