Charities attack government ‘snapshot’ and criticise way official figures gathered
Government figures showing a fall in the number of rough sleepers is hiding the real scale of the crisis it has been claimed, with charities citing their own data that reveals a significant increase in the amount of vulnerable homeless people seeking help.
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