Make Local Authorities and the Government responsible for homeless people.

Rejected 18 signatures

What the petition asks

This year, more people will die on the streets. Some local authorities have seen fit to discriminate against homeless people and have installed pavement pikes to stop them sleeping in some areas. There are also some that have proposed fining homeless people for sleeping in some places.

In the below links, you can see the sort of measures put in place to stop homeless people sleeping in certain places. I Propose that Local Authorities and the government should have a duty of care and be held responsible for all homeless people across the UK; Including street homeless and all other kinds of homeless people.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/09/spikes-homeless-london-metal-alcove-defensive-architecture-poverty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_architecture

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action. The law already requires local housing authorities to ensure that advice and information about homelessness, and preventing homelessness, is available to
everyone in their district free of charge. The law also requires authorities to assist individuals and families who are homeless or threatened with homelessness and who apply for help.You can find out more about this here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/7841/152056.pdf

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Timeline

28 Nov 2016	Petition opened for signatures
20 Dec 2016	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 18

Status Rejected

Rejected 20 Dec 2016

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