Service offered and information on dog bites
Received 11 August 2026
- Does the local authority employ a dog warden or outsource the role? If the role is outsourced, who is responsible?
- What has been the local authority’s annual spend on the dog warden service for the last three years? Either for inhouse or outsourcing the role.
- Does the local authority have a documented standard operating procedure or policy regarding dog safety for workers visiting private property in the course of their employment? Please include both workers employed directly by the local authority and workers contracted to work on the authority’s behalf, for eg including, but not limited to, refuse collectors, social workers, housing officers etc
- How many instances of dog bites were reported to RIDDOR (https://www.hse.gov.uk/riddor/) in the last three years by the local authority? Please indicate whether your available data separates workers from members of the public. If it does, please supply the two figures separately.
Response due 9 September 2026
Dog Warden Service
1. At East Cambs District Council we outsource the kennelling, veterinary treatment, and stray dog rehoming functions to Wood Green Animal Charity, but within the team of generic officers employed to undertake all environmental health functions a limited service in the form of collection and transport of stray dogs is provided.
2. 2023 - £8100 for kennelling plus general revenue costs to provide the stray dog call handling, collection, and transport service as part of the statutory duty on local authorities to deal with stray dogs.
2024 - £10,813 for kenneling plus general revenue costs to provide the stray dog call handling, collection, and transport service as part of the statutory duty on local authorities to deal with stray dogs.
2025 - £9828.11 for kennelling plus general revenue costs to provide the stray dog call handling, collection, and transport service as part of the statutory duty on local authorities to deal with stray dogs
Dog bites on authority workers
1.None
• Information not held. We don’t have access to data regarding dog bites on members of the public.