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Exclusive: Charities say Home Office should allow 56 days after near 1,000% rise in rough sleeping among accommodation leaversLeading homelessness and refugee charities have called on the government to double the number of days that newly recognised refugees are given to find a home before being evicted from asylum hotels, after a near 1,000% rise in rough sleeping among Home Office accommodation leavers since...

Robert Jenrick’s resignation leads to reprieve until new year, as charities warn of more people being made homelessThe Home Office has been forced to pause its eviction of refugees from hotels on the eve of Christmas following evidence that “unacceptable” numbers are ending up destitute and sleeping on streets.Former immigration minister Robert Jenrick had, according to sources, refused to countenance any pause as part...