Work with partners to ensure oral health promotion and education is included within local early years health and social services
The Healthy Child Wales Programme sets out details of the contact children and families can expect to have with health professionals; this includes dental health as a core component.
NICE guidance Oral health: local authorities and partners (PH55) recommends including oral health promotion in specifications for all early years services; ensuring all early years services provide oral health information and advice; and ensuring early years services provide additional tailored information and advice for groups at high risk of poor oral health.
These activities are delivered by Designed to Smile, the national oral health improvement programme for children in Wales (delivered by NHS Wales Community Dental Services).