rough sleeper

The average age of death in rough sleepers is 42.

The flats are now homes for two former rough sleepers.

Most importantly, the number of rough sleepers to be found on London's streets on any one night fell from around 1,000 to 270 by 1995.

I don't think anyone is denying the psychological needs of people classified as homeless or rough sleepers.

At the beginning of this year, they estimated that the number of rough sleepers was in the order of 1,000.

Later, a ragged school was set up for the children of the poor, the rough sleepers and children from the workhouse.

We will tackle homelessness in London by delivering more affordable homes and providing better support to rough sleepers.

Rough sleepers in the City of London.

Although numbers on the streets went down, central London hostels were soon full to over-flowing with rough sleepers, many of whom had multiple needs.

Spaces for rough sleepers in hostels.

In London, 30% of rough sleepers are Eastern European.

Resettlement teams ensured that rough sleepers were not only found accommodation, but helped to maintain their tenancy, with some success.

The approach required from outreach teams was different, with teams expected to be more assertive in their approach to rough sleepers.

Poly Toynbee was whining about "new ranks of rough sleepers" if I remember rightly.

On each occasion some parts of the voluntary sector engaged with the relevant local authority to support the clearance of rough sleepers from the area.

The lyrics of the songs are mostly cheerful and the topics turn around music itself, dance, beer-drinking, rough sleepers and love.

Another urban myth surrounding the use of the name was that the subways and pedestrian underpasses beneath the building were popular places for rough sleepers.

This White Paper sets an ambitious target to halve homelessness by 2020 and offer supported accommodation to all rough sleepers who need it.

The beneficial effect of this process is of course that the qualtiy of services serving rough sleepers should be driven up.

More attention was given to tracking rough sleepers through the hostel system and to sharing information between partner organisations via a central database called 'Chain'.

These initiatives are often referred to as the Rough Sleepers Initiative (RSI).

Until 1997 the RSI was concentrated on London where the number of rough sleepers was far higher than in any other part of the country.

During the 1980s a number of large encampments of rough sleepers grew up in various places, usually referred to by the media as 'Cardboard City'.

However, beginning with the Conservative administration's Rough Sleeper Initiative, the number of people sleeping rough in London fell dramatically.

United Kingdom: 10,459 rough sleepers, 98,750 households in temporary accommodation (Department for Communities and Local Government 2005)