Barking and Dagenham and Havering Council have become the first London councils to provide joint services. The neighbouring councils have teamed up to support services available to local companies.
They will be collecting business rates jointly on behalf of central government. Barking and Dagenham Council will be providing operational capability for the partnership while Havering will provide all IT services. A new ten person team will work from Dagenham to deal with administration and collection services for both boroughs.
The councils will be working in partnership on the collection of business rates, and have worked together to design and implement the National Non Domestic Rate Shared Services Agreement jointly in both boroughs.
