Lynn Carrington, Designated Nurse, Children in Care provided a verbal
update on dental checks for Haringey Children in care as
an update regarding
dental appointments was requested at the last Corporate Parenting
Committee
The meeting heard that:
- The Healthy
Smiles Looked After Children's Oral Health Pilot started on
15.11.2021 to support children to have the statutory oral health
assessments and access to routine NHS dental care during the COVID
pandemic.
- The service
aimed to refer children if they were
unable to get a dental appointment.
- Whittington Health dental services will see also
see Children in Care.
- For children who were living outside of London and
SW’s or carers inform the nurse of difficulties in booking
appointments, then the CIC health team would contact their
counterparts in other areas requesting which dentists in their area
were seeing Children in Care.
- Some foster carers had reported they had been
unable to get appointments for children who had recently moved to
them.
- It was noted that the data presented on the report
in the number of children were not up to date with dental checks on
6.2.2024. The dates of the dental checks are entered by Social
Workers onto Liquid Logic.
- Currently 101 children between 2- 18 do not have an
up-to-date dental check recorded on Liquid Logic