Barking and Dagenham residents are being provided advice and tips to help them stay safe in their own homes and to be wise to the dangers posed by bogus callers.

 

Bogus callers are criminals who try to trick their way into your home by saying that they work for an organisation such as the council or NHS, or from gas, water or electricity supply companies, the fire brigade, trading standards, or even the police. 

Over 70 young people from a number of Barking and Dagenham schools came together this week as part of an orchestra and choir.

Primary Music Day took place at Barking Abbey School for the first time and with six primary schools participating.

The orchestra consisted of a large number of instruments including the flute, clarinet, violin, viola, trumpet, piano plus many more. 

Did you know that there are a number of community orchards in Barking and Dagenham, and that you can help look after them?

The Orchard Project is an organisation that brings community orchards to cities and towns across the country. They’re heading to Central Park in Dagenham on Wednesday 27 March, to offer practical classes on how to care for fruit trees so that you can enjoy the fruit that they produce at harvest time.

Barking and Dagenham Council has won this year’s LGC Entrepreneurial Council Award for its ‘whole council’ approach to commercialisation.

The award recognises how councils are not only generating income but continuing to provide services to their most vulnerable residents despite huge financial challenges.

Improvement works to the play equipment and sporting facilities in Dagenham’s Valence Park are nearing completion, with the revamped recreation area set to open with a launch event on Tuesday 26 March.

The opening ceremony will be taking place from 3pm at Valence Park, where a whole host of activities will be on offer to residents.

New CCTV images have been released of people illegally dumping rubbish in Barking and Dagenham as part of the fifteenth CCTV Appeal video. 

Barking and Dagenham Council will help to create safer roads and pavements and a fairer approach to parking across the borough by extending controlled parking zones (CPZs) across more than local 100 roads.

The four zones will be operational from Monday 1 July 2019. 

Only eligible residents and businesses who have applied for a permit will able to park within the zones during set times, and residents will need to purchase visitor permits. 

As part of Women’s Empowerment Month, 14 young women from Barking and Dagenham got an insight into working life at the top with the council’s female senior leadership.

The students from Barking Abbey, Sydney Russell and Eastbury Community schools were each given a senior female employee to follow for the day. 

As part of the day, the students were given an insight into how the organisation works and a glimpse of the day-to-day life at the council and the challenges staff and managers face. 

Two Barking and Dagenham businesses have been fined a total of £2,230 for failing to provide records that showed how they disposed of their waste. 

During a routine trade waste inspection on Wednesday 22 August 2017, council officers visited OM Engineers UK, a car repairs shop at 514 Ripple Road, Barking IG11 9PG. Mr Saju Miah, 36, the shop owner, was asked to produce Waste Transfer Notes for his general and recycled waste, used car parts, waste engine oil and used tyres.

A number of pupils from Sydney Russell School have been selected to be part of their first ever Elite Sports Squad and were congratulated by GB athlete Adam Gemili. 

Students have been selected based on displaying their high levels of sporting talent and commitment to the extra-curricular programme, competing for two sports teams over a year.