The Government has announced an extra £236m to help get rough sleepers off the street and will lead an ‘urgent review’ into the causes.
It comes as official Government ‘snapshot’ statistics estimated that the number of people sleeping rough in autumn 2019 in England was 4,266 – up 141% since 2010.
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