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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.
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.
Protecting services, extra support for people struggling with the cost of living crisis, more money to provide social care, further spending on improving residents’ homes and keeping the streets clean have been agreed in Barking and Dagenham Council’s 2023-24 budget.
Throughout the month of March, the council will be hosting a series of events and activities to promote women's empowerment. These include workshops, talks, and networking events aimed at encouraging and supporting women in various areas of their lives.
A bench has been installed on the premises of Jo Richardson Community School, in Dagenham in tribute to one of their former pupils, Jodie Chesney. She was stabbed while out in a park with her friends on a Friday night in March 2019.
The owner of, and estate agent responsible for letting a two-bedroom flat in Dagenham have been found guilty in court for providing extremely poor living conditions for tenants and have been ordered to pay over £22,000 between them.
The newly launched Parent and Carer Forum, which meets monthly, focuses on making it easier for people to get the help they need, when and where they need it – tailoring services to people looking after children.
Barking and Dagenham Council’s planning committee have voted unanimously in favour of plans for a new Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) to be built at Barking Community Hospital.
Last week, Barking and Dagenham Council launched an initiative to bring residents, Councillors and council officers together to combat antisocial behaviour concerns across the borough.