Four Nottingham City Council posters urging people not to give money to beggars have been banned for being likely to cause widespread offence and reinforcing negative stereotypes. One of the
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A local authority has spent more than £1m housing homeless families in Travelodge hotel rooms. Peterborough City Council confirmed it had run out of hostel beds and B&B rooms to
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One in three homeless 16 and 17-year-olds who were working with youth offending teams had been placed in unsafe or unsuitable accommodation. That’s according to independent inspectors who have published
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Young people in Glasgow facing the prospect of sleeping rough on the streets are to be provided an emergency bed for the night – in a volunteer’s home rather than
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The levels of homelessness in Scotland are a “national badge of shame”, according to a housing charity. Shelter accused local and national government of taking “their eye off the ball
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Homeless people are too often given “ineffectual and meaningless” advice by councils which treat them badly, according to MPs. A report by the Communities and Local Government Select Committee blames
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A Michelin-starred chef is lending his cooking skills to a new restaurant set up to support the homeless. Home is the latest venture by the team behind Social Bite –
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A sandwich shop chain which helps the homeless has received £550,000 from the Big Lottery Fund to expand its work across Scotland. Social Bite, which has cafes in Edinburgh, Glasgow
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Families in large parts of Britain are being denied vital housing advice because of “legal aid deserts” which have emerged due to Government cuts, the Law Society has warned. Almost
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The death of a baby girl after an incident at a homeless families’ unit in June is now being treated as suspicious. Three-month-old Sophia Williams died in Edinburgh’s Sick Kids
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