The team, from the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield, has completed a survey of supervised toothbrushing programmes currently available to children in England.
The researchers found that the number of programmes has increased since their last survey in April 2022 – but also identified several barriers preventing schools, nurseries, and other organisations from setting them up. These include funding, time pressures, and competing priorities.
The paper published in February 2025 features the results of a survey of 152 local authorities carried out between December 2023 and April 2024. Of those, 59 per cent had implemented a toothbrushing programme.
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