The government's "long-overdue" decision to scrap a law criminalising rough sleeping has been welcomed by charities and ...

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 ...

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

Rough sleeping to be decriminalised as 200-year-old law scrapped in ‘landmark moment’ - Figures show the number of people ...

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 ...

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

Decriminalising a 200-year-old law making rough sleeping an offence is "long-overdue", a charity has said. The government ...

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

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 ...

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

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the Government is 'drawing a line under nearly two centuries of injustice' by ...