Rough sleeping in England has surged 171% since 2010, while NHS mental health bed capacity fell 20% over the same period, with the two crises directly linked. Andy Burnham is addressing the interconnected homelessness and mental health challenge as a government priority.
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Outreach workers on the frontline of England’s homelessness crisis react to PM’s flagship policy pledge UK politics live – latest updates 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 Twickenham park. Suddenly they alight on an array of sleeping bags, airbeds, toilet rolls and plastic bags stu
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