Oral health 

Last reviewed: July 30 2024

Last updated: July 30 2024

The setting provides care for children and promotes health through promoting oral health and hygiene, encouraging healthy eating, healthy snacks and tooth brushing.

• Fresh drinking water is available at all times and easily accessible.

• Sugary drinks are not served.

• Only water and milk are served with morning and afternoon snacks.

• Children are offered healthy nutritious snacks with no added sugar.

• Parents are discouraged from sending in confectionary as a snack or treat.

• Staff follow the Infant & Toddler Forum’s Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers.

Pacifiers/dummies

• Parents are advised to stop using dummies/pacifiers once their child is 12 months old. 

• Dummies that are damaged are disposed of and parents are told that this has happened

Further guidance

Infant & Toddler Forum: Ten Steps for Healthy Toddlers www.infantandtoddlerforum.org/toddlers-to-preschool/healthy-eating/ten-steps-for-healthy-toddlers/