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

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

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

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

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

The UK government announced on Monday that it plans to scrap a Georgian-era law that made 'rough sleeping' a criminal offense. The official statement promised to abolish the 200-year-old statute by ...