Schools: Dental Services

(asked on 20th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government how often children have dental checks in school; and what percentage of schoolchildren in England and Wales had these checks in the last academic year.


Answered by
Lord Kamall Portrait
Lord Kamall
This question was answered on 7th March 2022

There is no national programme of routine dental checks in schools in England. The provision of dental checks in schools in Wales is a devolved matter.

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