A number of councils in England are regularly buying
one-way train tickets for homeless people out of their area. The strategy can
be used to reconnect rough sleepers with family, but one man said he was offered
a ticket to a city he had never been to before. The government said it was
investing £550 million to tackle homelessness. Twenty councils with the highest
number of rough sleepers in England were asked - some by Freedom of Information
request - how many homeless people had been offered the
"reconnection" policy of a one-way train ticket between 2012 and
2017. Of the 11 that responded, 10 said they had bought such tickets. Read more
on the BBC website.
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