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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).