This comes in the form of repealing the Vagrancy Act, which has made rough sleeping and begging illegal in England and Wales ...

Organisations involved in tackling rough sleeping have warned of a "critical 12 months ahead", due to funding pressures and ...

The government plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act and bring in laws to focus on crimes like organised begging by gangs.

Council officials are in talks to reopen a night shelter following an apparent increase in the number of people sleeping ...

A council department has been named ‘Team of the Year’ at the Housing Heroes Awards 2025. North Northamptonshire Council’s ...

Rough sleeping will no longer be a crime in the UK as the government abolishes a ‘cruel’ 200-year-old law. The Vagrancy Act 1824 was introduced amid a spiralling homelessness crisis after the ...

Angela Rayner’s plans to decriminalise rough sleeping could lead to San Francisco-style tent cities in Britain, the Tories have warned. The Deputy Prime Minister announced on Tuesday that the Vagrancy ...

Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised by Spring next year under radical plans by Labour to stop people becoming homeless in the first place.. The number of rough sleepers has risen dramatically ...

Secret state government data has shown an alarming rise in rough sleeping across Adelaide’s suburbs – even as official ...

Camden Council has launched a consultation on its new five-year strategy for reducing homelessness and rough sleeping in the ...

Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised as the Government abolishes a 200-year-old law that made it illegal. The Vagrancy Act, introduced in 1824 to tackle a homelessness crisis after the ...