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Rough sleeping decriminalised as Vagrancy Act abolished
Government scraps 200-year-old law to focus on addressing root causes of homelessness
Rough sleeping and begging will no longer be a criminal offence after today (29 June) following the government’s repeal of the Vagrancy Act.
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