Medical firm paid millions of pounds in public money to carry out assessments on vulnerable people without ever meeting them

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Medical firm paid millions of pounds in public money to carry out assessments on vulnerable people without ever meeting them
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Exclusive: Medical firm paid millions of pounds in public money by councils and the Home Office to carry out assessments on homeless individuals and asylum seekers, based solely on paper records

The total number of people counted or estimated to be sleeping rough on a single night in autumn 2018 was 4,677, up 2,909 people or 165% from the 2010 total of 1,768The number of people sleeping rough increased by 146 or 13% in London since 2017London accounted for 27% of the total number of people sleeping rough in England.

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