Guidance

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.

Applies to England

Documents

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

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Appendix N: data summary year 6, 2022 to 2023

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Appendix O: data linkage year 6, 2022 to 2023

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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.

Published 28 September 2022
Last updated 31 January 2023 + show all updates
  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.