They included all the other inner London boroughs with 160 or
more rough sleepers.
Not exact matches
Hounding
rough sleepers out of city centres may make shoppers and tourists feel a little
more comfortable while they go about their business, but it does nothing to prevent these deaths.
Over recent years the number of homeless people has soared, camps of
rough -
sleepers have sprung up around the UK and, according to the charity Shelter,
more than 100,000 children will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation.
Crisis, the national charity for homeless people, urged that the true number of
rough sleepers was far greater after its own research found that
more than 8,000 people were currently sleeping
rough across England.
A government scheme designed to help
rough sleepers into work or training will be expanded after the Department for Communities and Local Government agreed to
more funding.