Legal powers have been used to ban a troublesome tenant from having any visitors inside their property, following reports of drug use and anti-social behaviour.

Barking and Dagenham Council joined Social Enterprise Academy to encourage young people to step up and present their social or environmental initiatives to a panel of ‘Dragons’ at Barking Town Hall. Each group received feedback and a cash prize to help them develop their school enterprises, sponsored by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.

A woman whose serious anti-social behaviour ended up in her being handed a jail sentence has had her home repossessed by Barking and Dagenham Council. 

Barking and Dagenham Council has recently expanded its successful School Streets programme which aims to keep kids safe by reducing the amount traffic on roads in and around schools.

Today is National Offer Day and sees 95.52 per cent (2,918 pupils) of parents in the borough given their first preference, placing Barking and Dagenham second in London.

Reducing youth violence in Barking and Dagenham is a key priority for the council and its Trading Standards team regularly run test purchasing operations with local businesses to ensure they’re not selling knives to young people.

Barking and Dagenham Council is determined to protect its residents and the Trading Standards team play a pivotal role in this by ensuring local businesses don’t sell illegal products or items to underage children.

A judge has ordered a Barking shisha bar owner to pay a fine of nearly £1,000 for trading illegally on the public highway.

The Trading Standards team at Barking and Dagenham Council take sales of illegal cigarettes and tobacco very seriously and regularly carry out operations to seize these products from local shops.

Barking and Dagenham Council teamed up with Growing Communities’ Better Food Shed, a not-for-profit organic fruit and vegetable wholesaler, to deliver 1,000 food hampers to support families who need it the most.