Author: OHID | Location: England and Wales

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The Healthy Child Programme provides a universal framework for supporting the health and wellbeing of children and young people, with a strong emphasis on prevention.

Oral health is embedded within its wider focus on child development and school health.

This toolkit:

• Includes oral health promotion within national child health checks.

• Supports schools in embedding healthy lifestyle education.

• Promotes partnership working between schools, parents, and health services.

• Provides evidence-based standards for oral health interventions in education.

For: Teachers, school health professionals, commissioners, local authorities.

Healthy Child Programme – GOV.UK