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.