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Secret state government data has shown an alarming rise in rough sleeping across Adelaide’s suburbs – even as official ...
The government plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act and bring in laws to focus on crimes like organised begging by gangs.
Rough sleeping is to be decriminalised as the Government abolishes a 200-year-old law that made it illegal. The Vagrancy Act, ...
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 ...
The boss of a Blackpool homeless charity has said a plan to decriminalise rough sleeping on the streets of the seaside town ...
Decriminalising a 200-year-old law making rough sleeping an offence is "long-overdue", a charity has said. The government ...
The mayor of London has said he will end the "trauma" of people who have to be sleeping on the streets before they can access support. He aims to ending rough sleeping by 2030, and has secured £17m in ...
Brian Thiessen, the mayoral candidate under The Calgary Party banner, said the party's platform focuses on providing housing ...
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 ...
After 200 years, rough sleeping will no longer be a crime as the Government confirms it will formally scrap the Vagrancy Act ...
Tent cities could pop up across the UK as rough sleeping is decriminalised, critics of the policy say. Ministers have announced plans to repeal the Vagrancy Act by next spring, meaning it will no ...