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

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

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

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

Brian Thiessen, the mayoral candidate under The Calgary Party banner, said the party's platform focuses on providing housing ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

The local authority, alongside many councils across the region and UK, are dealing with a rapid increase in rough sleeping ...