Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge, reports The Guardian. 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 […]

Report warns an additional 50,000 people could be added to current record figure without bold policies, reports The Guardian. Andy Burnham has been warned that an additional 50,000 people in England will become homeless in the next four years without a radical “housing first” agenda of government. The incoming prime minister’s leadership team is understood […]

The government has published the first part of the Timms Review into the PIP assessment process. Here’s what it found, reports the Big Issue. The assessment process for the disability benefit benefit personal independence payment (PIP) is “dehumanising”, “degrading” and “stressful”, according to the findings of the government’s own Timms Review. The Department for Work […]

New government figures show a worrying rise in rough sleeping in Liverpool – for those at the sharp end of this crisis, optimism is in short supply, reports the Liverpool Echo. “I’m asking for help and I am looking for accommodation, but I am always on a waiting list.” Corinna is 45 and has been […]

Dave said he regularly moves around different parts of Liverpool, reports the Echo. A homeless Liverpool man whose hammock has been spotted hanging from lampposts and trees across the city said he feels safer sleeping outdoors than in emergency accommodation. Dave, 35, from Fazakerley, has become a familiar sight in parks and green spaces around […]