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

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

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

Figures show the number of people classed as living on the streets in London had risen by more than a third in a year ...

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 ...

After 200 years, rough sleeping will no longer be a crime as the Government confirms it will formally scrap the Vagrancy Act ...

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

Government funding has been secured by the local authority to establish the Single Homelessness Accommodation Programme ...