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<p>The Government is committed to reducing homelessness and rough sleeping. No one
should ever have to sleep rough. That is why last summer we published the cross-government
Rough Sleeping Strategy. This sets out an ambitious £100 million package to help people
who sleep rough now, but also puts in place the structures that will end rough sleeping
once and for all. The Government has now committed over £1.2 billion to tackle homelessness
and rough sleeping over the spending review period.</p><p><br>Public Spaces Protection
Orders and other anti-social behaviour measures should be used proportionately to
tackle anti-social behaviour, and not to target specific groups such as homeless people.
We refreshed the statutory guidance for frontline professionals on use of the powers
in the Anti-social Behaviour Act 2014 in December 2017 to make absolutely clear that
these orders should not be used to target people based solely on the fact that they
are homeless or sleeping in public open spaces.</p>
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