Wednesday 18 October 2017

Councils Buying Homeless One-Way Train Tickets

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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