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Online safety and identifying safe and unsafe places in the borough were just some of the key topics discussed at the 2025 Youth Safety Summit, held on Wednesday 2 July.
Trading Standards officers carried out a series of coordinated enforcement raids on Saturday, 28 June, targeting multiple retail premises suspected of selling illicit tobacco and vape products.
Barking and Dagenham Trading Standards has seized almost 1,300 illegal vapes from local retailers in the two weeks following the introduction of a nationwide ban on single-use vapes, which came into effect on 1 June 2025.
Budding young film makers from Barking and Dagenham keen to get a foot in the door in the film industry are being invited to take up a paid work experience on a live film shoot.
In its continued efforts to ensure everyone, and in particular women, in Barking and Dagenham feel safe when out and about in the borough, the council has launched an initiative to provide safe spaces for them to go when they need help to feel safe.
Barking and Dagenham Council is gearing up to celebrate the Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen Consort on 6 May. And after the success of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee event last year, we know residents will want to get in on the action.
A new initiative offering elderly residents the chance to borrow a laptop for free has been launched as a way of tackling digital inequality in Barking and Dagenham.
Leader of the Council, Councillor Darren Rodwell, said:
“We are saddened by the events that took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning and our hearts go out to everyone affected. We’re aware that some residents have lost everything including their homes and possessions.
The landlord of a property dubbed a “house of horrors” by Barking and Dagenham Council enforcement officers has been ordered to pay more than £8,000 by the courts.
A local leisure centre is celebrating International Women’s Day by offering a range of free activities at its recently launched women’s only gym on Wednesday 8 March.
