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Oral health survey of children in year 6, 2022 to 2023: survey toolkit

Protocol and documents fieldworkers should use to collect oral health information for the survey of children in year 6 for the academic year 2022 to 2023.

Updates to this page

From:
Office for Health Improvement and Disparities
Published:
28 September 2022
Last updated:
31 January 2023
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  1. Appendix C amended to fix broken links in the 'List of resources' section.

  2. Updated 'Appendix I part 1' under the section 'What information is collected' to clarify that parents agree to children being invited to take part. Added a link to the Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.

  3. First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Oral health survey of children in year 6, 2022 to 2023: national protocol

PDF, 981 KB, 75 pages

Appendix B: letter of support year 6, 2022 to 2023

PDF, 35.9 KB, 2 pages

Appendix C: letter to headteachers year 6, 2022 to 2023 (editable pdf to print)

PDF, 708 KB, 4 pages

Appendix D: lawful basis for data under GDPR DPA 2018

PDF, 29.5 KB, 2 pages

Appendix I part 1: information for parents year 6, 2022 to 2023 (editable pdf to print)

PDF, 1.55 MB, 5 pages

Appendix I part 2: agreement to participate year 6, 2022 to 2023 (to print)

PDF, 44.4 KB, 1 page

Appendix I part 3: core agreement letter year 6, 2022 to 2023 (editable pdf to print)

PDF, 641 KB, 1 page

Appendix J: school tracking list year 6, 2022 to 2023 (to print)

PDF, 19 KB, 1 page

Appendix K: examination day sheet year 6, 2022 to 2023

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 70.5 KB

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Appendix L: data collection sheet year 6, 2022 to 2023 (editable pdf to print)

PDF, 627 KB, 2 pages

Appendix M: questionnaire response sheet year 6, 2022 to 2023 (to print)

PDF, 33 KB, 1 page

Appendix N: data summary year 6, 2022 to 2023

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 21.7 KB

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Appendix O: data linkage year 6, 2022 to 2023

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 109 KB

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Guidance for handling data year 6, 2022 to 2023 (to print)

PDF, 317 KB, 23 pages

Details

These documents support the National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) oral health survey of children in year 6.

All the necessary methods and support materials for fieldworkers to carry out this oral health survey are provided here.

The data collection tool is available to download from the Dental Public Health Epidemiology workspace page.

The findings of these surveys provide comparable details of caries levels and other clinical measures at local authority level. This informs decisions by local authorities, the NHS and other partners.

The results are classified as official statistics.

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