Guidance

Oral health survey of 5 year old children 2023 to 2024: toolkit

Protocol and documents that fieldworkers should use to collect oral health information for the survey of 5 year old children for the academic year 2023 to 2024.

Applies to England

Documents

Oral health survey of 5 year old children, 2023 to 2024: national protocol (to print)

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Appendix B: letter of support 5 year old children, 2023 to 2024 (to print)

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Appendix C: letter to headteachers 5 year old children, 2023 to 2024 (editable document to print)

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Appendix D: lawful basis for data under GDPR DPA 2018 (to print)

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Appendix J part 1: information for parents 5 year old children, 2023 to 2024 (editable document to print)

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Appendix J part 2: agreement to participate 5 year old children 2023 to 2024 (editable document to print)

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Appendix J part 3: core agreement letter 5 year old children, 2023 to 2024 (editable document to print)

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Appendix K: school tracking list 5 year old children 2023 to 2024 (editable document to print)

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Appendix L: examination day sheet 5 year old children 2023 to 2024

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Appendix M: data collection sheet 5 year old children 2023 to 2024

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Appendix N: data summary sheet 5 year old children 2023 to 2024

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Guidance for handling data 5 year old children 2023 to 2024 (to print)

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Details

These documents support the National Dental Epidemiology Programme (NDEP) oral health survey of 5 year old children for the academic year 2023 to 2024.

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.

Updates to this page

Published 5 September 2023

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