NP "Sleeping Rough"

[Dave Monroe]

Rough Sleepers Unit

In July 1998 the Social Exclusion Unit (SEU) published
a report setting out the way forward for reducing
rough sleeping in England. As a result the Prime
Minister set a target to reduce the numbers of people
sleeping rough to as near zero as possible but by at
least two thirds by 2002.

The Rough Sleepers Unit (RSU), headed by Louise Casey,
former Deputy Director of Shelter was established
within DETR in April 1999 and assumed responsibility
for national rough sleeping policy from September
1999. It was set the task of implementing the
recommendations of the SEU, by working on a radical
new approach to help vulnerable rough sleepers off the
streets, rebuilding the lives of former rough sleepers
and preventing new rough sleepers of tomorrow.

http://www.housing.dtlr.gov.uk/information/index04.htm

Saturday, 4 August, 2001, 00:31 GMT 01:31 UK
 
Fall in numbers sleeping rough

By BBC social affairs reporter Branwen Jeffreys 

The number of people sleeping on the streets of
England has been slashed dramatically, according to
the latest Government figures. 

Three years ago there were almost 2000 people sleeping
rough in England. 

The squalor of people living on pavements made
homelessness a high profile political issue. In the
latest national estimate the number sleeping on the
streets has now fallen to 703. 

In a progress report the government's Rough Sleepers
Unit says the fall is due to a more focused approach,
offering the homeless better help with drug and
alcohol addiction, and mental health problems. 

More effort is also being put into preventing people
at risk of becoming rough sleepers.... 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1472000/1472946.stm

Rough sleepers tsar sweeps ahead with targets 

Matt Weaver
Thursday April 12, 2001 

Homelessness tsar Louise Casey's rough sleepers unit
(RSU) is on course to cut the number of people
sleeping rough by two-thirds by clearing 1,200 people
off the streets, almost a year ahead of target....

http://society.guardian.co.uk/homelessness/story/0,8150,472450,00.html

--- Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at attbi.com> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the phrase.  What does it
> mean?
> 
> "She had been sleeping rough with her boyfriend,
> Brian Galloway, 26, who has been questioned by
> police and is not a suspect. "
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/scotland/newsid_1977000/1977848.stm

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