Sentences with phrase «rough sleepers»
The phrase "rough sleepers" refers to people who do not have a home or a shelter to sleep in and therefore spend their nights sleeping in public places, such as the streets or parks. Full definition
Number of rough sleepers in London continues to rise every year.
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Based on their replies, there seems to be a rough correlation between the number of rough sleepers in a borough and the number of Immigration Enforcement operations.
Inspired by a newspaper sold on the streets of New York called Street News, it was launched in 1991 in response to the growing number of rough sleepers on the streets of London.
A tour bus which has transported «A-list» celebrities across the country will be transformed into a mobile shelter for rough sleepers in Manchester, under plans by a Christian charity.
A report from Corporate Watch claims that several homeless charities, including St Mungo's and Thames Reach, are «collaborating» with the Home Office to remove foreign rough sleepers from the UK.
Two well - known homeless charities are accused of being «complicit» with the deportation of foreign rough sleepers from the UK, Politics.co.uk can reveal.
St Mungo's responds to the article reported in the Guardian about a complaint made to the Charities Commission and the Information Commissioners Office about how we work with Non-UK rough sleepers.
In May 2016, coincidentally or otherwise a month before the Brexit vote, the Home Office made life even tougher for European rough sleepers.
The Council is continuing to work with Cornwall Housing, and other organisations who work with rough sleepers in Cornwall, to provide emergency accommodation and other services.
«St Mungo's does not remove rough sleepers who are not exercising their treaty rights.
The Government could be forced to shell out hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation for illegally deporting rough sleepers from the EU, in...
The Home Office launched Operations Adoze and Gopik to remove rough sleepers from the UK even if they were working or had permanent right of residence.
Tough policy on migrant rough sleepers was «intensely lobbied» for by Westminster Council, and encouraged by the «Mayor's Rough Sleeping Group», which included senior charity managers from St Mungo's, Thames Reach, Homeless Link, and also Crisis.1
The move was widely criticised, but this is by no means the only example of a business or council trying to push rough sleepers out of a central location.
The «Beast from the East» can be credited with getting 60 long - term rough sleepers off Dublin streets and into stable accommodation, according to the Peter...
A witness statement filed on behalf of the Home Office during a legal case against the deportation of EU rough sleepers said there had been «a surge» of people from less economically prosperous countries who were «intent on rough sleeping».
The statistics are stark — homelessness has surged and the number of rough sleepers dying on the streets has doubled.
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.
Camden, number two for rough sleepers after Westminster, said that its outreach teams made 24 joint visits with Immigration Enforcement in the previous year, i.e., one a fortnight.
In London, where the current mayor Boris Johnson had promised to eradicate the problem of rough sleeping by 2012, the number of rough sleepers rose by 27 % in the past year alone.
There was uproar today after a council leader in Windsor called for a crackdown on rough sleepers before the royal wedding in May.
The homeless and recovery charity St Mungo's today called the rise in rough sleepers unprecedented and called on David Cameron to take urgent action.
For the councils who are more worried about the bad impression rough sleepers give of the town, rather than actually finding permanent housing for them, the idea that they are frauds is a myth they are happy to promote.
Metal spikes are installed on ledges outside buildings, bus stop seats are manufactured with a curve so no - one can sleep on them, benches have bars put on them to stop rough sleepers lying down.
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.
At least 83 verified rough sleepers died last year in London.
On Sunday, Jeremy Corbyn told the Andrew Marr show that Labour would immediately purchase 8,000 properties for rough sleepers if it came to power.
Last month, rough sleepers bedding down at the Stratford Centre in Newham were woken in the early hours of the morning and handed community protection notices ordering them to leave the area.
Murphy James from the Windsor Homeless Project today dismissed the idea rough sleepers choose to be on the streets.
The number of rough sleepers increased by 15 per cent in just one year, up 617 since autumn 2016.
Saturday's jamboree will see 100,000 tourists line the cobbled streets — and rough sleepers cleared off them.
Council leader wanted rough sleepers removed but some feel outrage has at least shined light on issue
They included all the other inner London boroughs with 160 or more rough sleepers.
Outside the centre of London, many councils with lower numbers of rough sleepers sign up for a pan-London outreach service commissioned by the GLA.
The information they get from joint visits and CHAIN may help them find non-UK rough sleepers even before they are classed as non-complying.
Former rough sleepers we interviewed told us they were detained before any «reconnection» process began.
Basically it involves three teams in vans responding to reports of rough sleepers all around the city's periphery.
Several nights a week, immigration patrols are out targeting rough sleepers in London, now a prime focus for raids under Theresa May's «hostile environment» policy.
We know what rough sleepers need better than any council or charity does.»
Cllr Nigel Murphy, executive member for neighbourhoods for Manchester city council, said the exclusion order is designed to prevent the recurrence of camps and not targeted at individual rough sleepers.
«I think it's a moral litmus test for the country: do we just put up with so many rough sleepers or do we do something about it.»
St Mungo's cooperated with Home Office patrols looking for migrant rough sleepers deemed to be in UK illegally
It is a duality which sees rough sleepers, living under buildings owned by billionaire moguls, to interrogating the architectural appearance of a city in conflict with itself.
Alternatively, we consider that an individual may be able to challenge a local authority's decision to use a PSPO to evict rough sleepers or the occupants of an unauthorised encampments by way of judicial review on much the same grounds with the benefit of legal aid and legal representation.
Joining forces: HASL with migrant solidarity and housing activists protesting Home Office deportations of Eastern European rough sleepers.
Rough sleepers who fear immigration enforcement will be forced underground.
A Home Office policy to deport rough sleepers from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) has been ruled unlawful by the high court after a challenge brought on behalf of two Polish men and a Latvian.
Targeting and deporting foreign rough sleepers is systematic and routine.
Refuse — or just «forget» — to hand over information to the Home Office on non-UK rough sleepers, including through the CHAIN database.
The same approach is used with rough sleepers, encouraged from the top.