A THIRD of five-year-old children in Barnsley have dental decay, new figures suggest.
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities data relates to five-year-olds with any enamel and dental decay.
It reveals an estimated 33.6 per cent of five year olds in Barnsley had dental decay in the 2023/24 academic year.
Across England, this stood at 26.9 per cent last year – a slight improvement from 29.3 per cent in the previous survey of the cohort in 2021/22.
The British Dental Association said there has been ‘no progress’ on the rollout of Labour manifesto pledges to ‘fix the failed contract fuelling the crisis in NHS dentistry’ or to deliver prevention programmes in schools.
