Barking and Dagenham Council is continuing its work to improve perceptions of safety and crime in the borough and last Thursday (20 January), it joined forces with the police to talk to residents and commuters at Barking Station about any concerns or issues they may have.



The Metropolitan Police initiative, known as Walk and Talk, aims to start a conversation between members of the public and police officers about any worries that they have, what can be done to address them and for members of the public to walk with a police officer to highlight areas of concern.

Eastbrook School in Dagenham is celebrating after being judged as a ‘good’ school following its Ofsted inspection last month.

The all-through school was deemed to have improved significantly in all areas since its last inspection in 2018 when it was judged to require improvement.

During the two-day inspection, Ofsted inspectors visited lessons, spoke to staff and pupils, and looked at curriculum plans and safeguarding records. They also observed behaviour at lunchtimes and considered the responses from parents, staff and pupils to Ofsted’s surveys.

Barking and Dagenham Council will be commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day on Thursday 27 January. The event will bring together the borough’s civic, faith and political leaders in a special online event and will see the Town Hall lit up in purple and the raising of a commemorative Holocaust Memorial Day flag.

Residents are invited to find out more about Barking and Dagenham Council’s latest budget proposals by joining an online Facebook Live Q&A event this week.

The live question-and-answer session will take place on Thursday, 27 January between 6pm and 7pm, and will be hosted on the Facebook page of Councillor Darren Rodwell, the Leader of the Council.

Joining him to answer questions about the 2022/23 budget proposals will be Deputy Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Finance, Performance and Core Services, Councillor Dominic Twomey. 

The first stage of an extensive project to improve a park in Dagenham is now in full swing

An investigation by Barking and Dagenham Council’s fraud investigators has resulted in a man, now living in Leeds, pleading guilty to subletting his council property.

 

In January 2020, council officers received information that Mr Jonathan Green was not living at his two-bedroom flat at Colne House, Barking which he obtained in 2019.

 

There’s still time for nominations of inspirational local women to be a part of this year’s Women’s Empowerment Month Awards 2022 – although time is quickly running out.

The celebrations, now in their seventh year, mark the diverse achievements of women who live or work in Barking and Dagenham across eight categories, six of which are open to public nominations.

A local café has been ordered to pay a fine of nearly £2,000 after it failed to provide documents that showed how it disposed of its waste following a routine inspection from Barking and Dagenham Council enforcement officers.



Officers visited KSD Café Limited, which was trading as Big Breakfast Café on 27 September 2019 and issued them with a notice to provide their Waste Transfer Notes (WTN) for the last two years within 14 days.

Residents of Barking and Dagenham are being urged to add some green plans to their New Year resolutions and do their bit for the planet by signing up to the council’s Green Garden Waste collection service.

The service, which costs just £41 for the year, collects and recycles cut flowers, weeds, leaves, grass cuttings, twigs and hedge trimmings.

Barking Abbey School in east London has partnered with the mental resilience programme Mindscreen, enrolling 660 pupils after a successful trial.

The pandemic has disrupted young people's lives at home and school, and piled pressure on mental health services and Special Educational Needs Coordinators (SENCos).