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, ...

Secret state government data has shown an alarming rise in rough sleeping across Adelaide’s suburbs – even as official ...

A 200-year-old law criminalising rough sleepers is set to be scrapped. The Vagrancy Act, introduced in 1824 for punishment of ...

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

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 ...

HUDDLED outside a luxury department store, a homeless man puffs on a suspicious-looking cigarette while young families hurry ...

Salvation Army Director of Homelessness Services Nick Redmore also said: “We strongly welcome the Government’s pledge to ...

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

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 ...