About oral health
Find out more about our oral health offering for children and young people in Leeds.
Oral health training
We deliver training for health professionals, early years practitioners, school staff, foster carers, voluntary sector and community groups working with children and young people and their caregivers on how to deliver key oral health message.
The training adopts a facilitative approach looking at policy, guidance and practical issues.
Training dates are available to book on to on Eventbrite.
Tooth brushing scheme
We support the delivery of the tooth brushing scheme within identified schools and preschool settings in Leeds.
This involves children being provided with toothbrushes and toothpaste to brush daily when in school and nursery.
Staff are trained in how to support children to brush their teeth. Settings are visited twice a year to ensure ensure infection control is maintained to a high standard.
Healthy schools
We deliver training within schools as part of the healthy schools offer and details of our training can be found on the Healthy schools training brochure.
Leeds Smiles
Health partners in Leeds pooled their resources to develop the Leeds Smiles campaign and website.
It’s aimed at parents and carers of babies and very young children and gives lots of advice on keeping little mouths and newly emerging teeth healthy and then getting kids into good dental hygiene habits.
There’s some games to play and even a song to learn, visit the Leeds Smiles webpage.
General dental practices
We support general dental practices with their work with children and young people. This is done through newsletters and information sharing and working in partnership to ensure children are able to access dentists for NHS treatment.
Please visit NHS: How to find an NHS dentist
