Deputy Prime Minister to scrap 200-year-old law, with fears more people could camp on streets
Deputy Prime Minister to scrap 200-year-old law, with fears more people could camp on streets
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The Vagrancy Act, originally introduced in 1824 for the punishment of ‘idle and disorderly persons, and rogues and vagabonds’
Government set to decriminalise rough sleeping
Tent cities could pop up across the UK as rough sleeping is decriminalised, critics of the policy say.
Decriminalising rough sleeping has been broadly welcomed, but it's not enough on its own to give homeless people the support and…
An isolated hotel room is the last place most homeless people want to spend the day and there was little provision for food
The number of rough sleepers has risen dramatically since 2010, from 1,768 people thought to be sleeping rough on an average…
Rachel Reeves pledges to end use of asylum hotels by 2029
