Councils have given thousands of rough sleepers and homeless people one-way train, bus and flight tickets to leave areas and sometimes even to leave the country in the last four years, a Guardian investigation can reveal. The tickets were bought through “reconnection policies” that aim to encourage rough sleepers to voluntarily return to areas where they have family and support networks. Some rough sleepers, however, said they had been offered tickets to places they had never been and felt as if they were given no choice. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian“I have heard of councils giving people one-way train tickets. “Some councils still offer the tickets in a way that makes you feel like you have to take it though.

Source: The Guardian December 28, 2018 18:43 UTC