Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, Homeless Link, StreetLink and our partners have been contacted by many people asking how they can help those within their communities who are homeless or sleeping rough.
New initiatives are in place to help protect vulnerable people, and on Friday 27 March, the Government wrote to local authorities to ask them to house all rough sleepers by the end of the week, to prevent the virus from spreading and enable them to self-isolate. However, in reality, this process is taking some time.