Rough sleeping to be decriminalised in England & Wales
Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next year under government plans to scrap a 200-year-old archaic law. Ministers are planning to scrap the Vagrancy Act, which outlaws rough sleeping in England and Wales. The law was introduced in 1824 to deal with rising homelessness, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has called it “cruel and outdated”. […]