Plans to fine rough sleepers in Oxford have been scrapped
after the city council decided to amend a proposal to tackle anti-social
behaviour. Homeless people who fail to use indoor accommodation offered to them
were originally on a list of people a Public Spaces Protection Order would
target. A petition against this idea had been signed by 72,000
people, stating the order would "criminalise" homelessness. The
council said it had concluded there were better ways of tackling the issue.
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