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‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?
UK NewsPoliticsJuly 24, 2026 at 2:31 PMNational

‘It’s generations of decline’: can Andy Burnham really end rough sleeping?

By Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondentThe Guardian - UK News

Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledgeUK politics live – latest updatesIt is close to midnight as two outreach workers from Spear, a homelessness charity in south London, shine their torches around bushes on the edge of a park in Twickenham.Suddenly they alight on an array of sleeping bags, airbeds, toilet rolls and plastic bags stuffed with belongings – a rough sleeping encampment that has popped up in the last two days. Continue reading...

Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge

It is close to midnight as two outreach workers from Spear, a homelessness charity in south London, shine their torches around bushes on the edge of a park in Twickenham.

Suddenly they alight on an array of sleeping bags, airbeds, toilet rolls and plastic bags stuffed with belongings – a rough sleeping encampment that has popped up in the last two days.

Continue reading...