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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.
Over 27,000 households are being written to this week reminding them that they are eligible for a one-off payment of £150 to help with rising energy costs. It is not a loan and they do not have to pay this back.
School Crossing Patrol officers are set to return to the borough’s streets to help protect pupils going to and from school so that our children remain safe.
A facility in Dagenham that supports people living with autism has received a prestigious accreditation from the National Autistic Society following an inspection in June.
A fly-pitcher trying their luck in Barking has had thousands of illegal cigarettes seized after she tried to sell them to plain clothed enforcement officers.
An illegal encampment which has been a persistent problem for local residents and was a source of antisocial behaviour has been cleared thanks to a joint action between council enforcement officers and the police.
Barking and Dagenham Council Trading Standards Officers carried out an operation on Saturday 25 June where an individual under 18-years of age tried to purchase cigarettes from 23 different businesses. All 23 of these businesses refused to sell cigarettes to the young person.
An operation by Barking and Dagenham Council’s Trading Standards team has resulted in the seizure of a large quantity of counterfeit goods from a trader operating in Barking.
The announcement by the Regional Director of the IOPC that the way the Metropolitan Police initially handled the deaths of four men murdered by serial killer Stephen Port is to be reinvestigated has been welcome by the Leader of Barking and Dagenham Council, Cllr Darren Rodwell.
