PM announces drive to get thousands of rough sleepers off streets for Christmas - ITVX

PM announces drive to get thousands of rough sleepers off streets for Christmas  ITVX

This week, the government has committed to ‘offer everyone a route off the streets this Christmas’

He's vowed to end rough sleepingJohn Scheerhout Crime reporter and Áine Fox Press Association Social Affairs Correspondent22:47, 18 Aug 2026Andy Burnham has pledged to work to "get everyone in for Christmas" as he continues to build on his vow to end rough sleeping.‌The Prime Minister is attempting a repeat of efforts

EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham writes for The Mirror on his 'moral mission' to end rough sleeping - one of his first instructions to officials after becoming Prime Minister

Today we begin our drive to get everyone in for Christmas. And it will be for local communities up and down the land to decide how best to do it Burnham launches ‘national drive’ to get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas I’ve always thought you can tell something about a country by what it learns to walk past. A

Housing Secretary tells The i Paper that town centres are being plagued by people sleeping on the streets

The move is reminiscent of the Everyone In scheme in the pandemic when thousands of rough sleepers across England were brought in off the streets.

The move is reminiscent of the Everyone In scheme in the pandemic when thousands of rough sleepers across England were brought in off the streets.