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THE number of people sleeping rough in England has risen for the first time since 2017, in what campaigners have branded a “massive, collective failure” by authorities.
Some 3,069 people are estimated to have been sleeping rough on any given night last autumn, a 26 per cent increase compared with the same season in 2021.
The official figures, published today, bring an end to four successive years of falling numbers.
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