On the Teachernet web site sweets are listed alongside awarding badges and house points as helping to encourage good behaviour.
After a health professional alerted the British Dental Health Foundation, its chief executive, Dr Nigel Carter, publicly criticised the measure as a "big shock and very disappointing", accusing it of jeopardising government promises on healthy eating.
However, when Children Now put the complaint to the author of the guidance, David Reynolds, Professor of Education at the University of Exeter, he promised to remove the reference immediately after the election.
He added that it had "slipped in" when the guidance was published three years ago, before the current focus on children's dental health.
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