Animal Welfare

Animal health and welfare

There is a wide range of legislation in the UK designed to protect the health and welfare of both domesticated and wild animals.

Animal health and welfare legislation is enforced jointly by the local authority and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), in association with other government bodies and independent organisations like the RSPCA.

What the local authority do:

Licensing of:

Horse Riding Establishments
Dog Breeding Establishments
Animal Boarding Establishments
Dangerous Wild Animals
Animal Movements

What Defra do:

National animal health and welfare strategy
Animal welfare at farms, markets, slaughterhouses
The pet travel scheme
International trade in animals
Animal diseases - control and surveillance, BSE, tuberculosis, scrapie, foot and mouth disease
Animal by-products
Wildlife conservation and biodiversity
Wildlife crime

Defra Helpline: 0845 933 5577

Animal welfare|

Contact

Business Support Team

Environmental and Enforcement Services

Roycraft House

15 Linton Road

Barking

IG11 8HE

Supported by Barking and Dagenham Direct:

Tel: 020 8215 3010

Fax: 020 8227 5184

Textphone: 020 8227 5755

Email: 3000direct@lbbd.gov.uk|

Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 8am - 8pm.

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