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

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

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

The Vagrancy Act that has criminalised rough sleeping in England and Wales for more than 200 years is finally set to be ...

A 200-year-old law criminalising rough sleepers is set to be scrapped. The Vagrancy Act, introduced in 1824 for punishment of ...

The Vagrancy Act 1824 was introduced amid a spiralling homelessness crisis after the Industrial Revolution. Most of the act ...

Camden Council has launched a consultation on its new five-year strategy for reducing homelessness and rough sleeping in the borough. The strategy sets out a bold, partnership-led plan for reducing ...

Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised as the Government abolishes a 200-year-old law that made it illegal. The Vagrancy Act, ...

The boss of a Blackpool homeless charity has said a plan to decriminalise rough sleeping on the streets of the seaside town ...

The Labour Government have pledged to scrap the law by next spring in an effort to decriminalise rough sleeping in public ...

Angela Rayner’s plans to decriminalise rough sleeping could lead to San Francisco-style tent cities in Britain, the Tories ...

The local authority, alongside many councils across the region and UK, are dealing with a rapid increase in rough sleeping ...