Jobless: Parents wait outside the job centre in Wakering Road, Barking
Barking and Dagenham has the 2nd highest unemployment rate in London
John Phillips , Senior Reporter
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
5:50 PM
Barking and Dagenham has the second highest unemployment rate in the capital, figures reveal.
Government statistics out today show 12.4 per cent of people were out of work in the east London borough, just behind Newham with 14.4 per cent, between April 2010 and March this year.
The figures show that 10,300 people on average - or 12.4 per cent of the population - were unemployed in Barking and Dagenham.
Most Read News
Dagenham man fights for life after suspected street fight
A man is fighting for his life today after a suspected street fight in Dagenham.
More news
- Administrators confirm Birthdays store in Barking to close
- Festival of fun being planned for Barking and Dagenham to celebrate Queen’s Jubilee
- Surprise party to celebrate 90th birthday of hard working Dagenham volunteer
- Zumba fundraiser in Dagenham
- Germans mourn former mayor who brought Barking and Dagenham and university town together
- Mother and son land hairdressing jobs in same Dagenham street after re-train
- Walkers to join diabetes fundraiser in Dagenham
- Men charged with Dagenham assault
- TV ghost hunter to go on paranormal tour of Dagenham’s oldest house
- Dagenham man fights for life after suspected street fight
1 comments
I can well understand the figures as the education system in the borough is one of the worst nationwide and numeracy and literacy statistics are amongst the worst in the country. It also seems that even working people are unaware of even simple geography as your reporter states that it is an East London Borough when in fact it is in Essex, as indeed is the London Borough of Havering and you cannot describe that as East London.
Report this comment
Allanon
Tuesday, October 18, 2011